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"AI-generated artwork is prompting hard questions about human creativity. The history of the photograph shows why the terms of the debate are wrong."

"Can deep learning systems learn to manipulate symbols? The answers might change our understanding of how intelligence works and what makes humans unique."

"Recently a webpage asked me to confirm my humanity by identifying cars in a mosaic of nine photos. A challenge-response test designed to thwart bots, reCAPTCHA (“Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”) _...Read More_

"Shap-E could be a game-changer for industries including interior design and architecture."

"Artists-in-residence at Google have created a game to test if people can differentiate between A.I. and human-made images"

"In the 1960s, a scientist named John Lilly began experimenting with isolation tanks in the hopes of finding a higher consciousness. Each day he would take LSD or ketamine and spend hours floating inside his saltwater container, immersing _...Read More_

"Pikari Mai! substitutes all stories about the monarchy with Indigenous news."

"These new A.I. versions of Austria's most iconic artworks all feature cats."

"In the way that they play with badness, they disclose to us something important about how we might resist the much-prophesied colonisation of the creative aspects of human life by AI."

"How are we still getting caught in the rain?"

"AI art as dreamtime and the advent of metamodern art-as-emergent-relationality"

"Nihilistic machines require human collaborators to realize their promise and avoid peril."

"Like Narcissus and his reflection, too many AI researchers are searching for the essence of intelligence when it doesn’t exist."

"OpenAI launched GPT-4: the most sophisticated iteration of the chatbot launched last year. Buried in a white paper concurrently (and quietly) released, OpenAI noted that when asked to solve a CAPTCHA during testing, GPT-4 pretended to be _...Read More_