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

“Retrocomputing is about more than nostalgic nerdery. It’s also a way to keep your tech in perspective.”

>"If an individual artist created an image they would be compensated. What about generative artwork created by AI systems?"

This is like saying “Why haven’t any literary authors set their books in the Midwest”

It’s been almost a year and a half since our inaugural Issue 1: Smart Cities closed with a postscript written by privacy activist Malavika Jayaram titled “Privacy Is Not an Elitist Concern”. Since then, the world has turned upside down, and _...Read More_

We will one day be lucky and all Lutherans will stand by and help each other

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Associated with Gulf Futurism, a movement of artists commenting on the accelerationist state of the Arabian Peninsula, Monira Al Qadiri creates work that addresses the tension between _...Read More_

You can’t understand the AI systems that are transforming our world without understanding the datasets they are built on.

A gigantic lump of fat and human waste lodged into the sewer system, the fatberg is a rich biological database of human and non-human relationships. Incrementally growing and consuming the excess of our everyday lives, it transforms into a _...Read More_

Ecosystems of Creativity is a four part series, which will highlight the culture of the collective, exploring how they raise the creative pulse of cities and enable them (and _...Read More_

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>"Thoughts on interactive media and our current technological moment through an accelerationist framework."

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