I recently wrote a short piece about AI and Hemingway, not topics that typically fall into the same Venn diagram
https://markrvickers.com/2023/08/07/ai-confabulation-why-bing-has-its-own-version-of-a-classic-hemingway-story/
AI Confabulation: Bing Has Its Own Version of a Hemingway Story
This essay called AI Confabulation helps explains why Bing has its own version of a classic Hemingway story
Thousands in Israel protest against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul – in pictures
On Monday the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were awash with blue and white flag waving protesters, demonstrating against the government
The Ever Hotter System of Which We Are a Part - The Reticulum
The Ever Hotter System of Which We Are a Part is about how we how we know without really feeling the urgency of global warming
In the U.S. we are about to celebrate Independence Day. Although it’s intended to commemorate our sovereignty as a nation, independence is also a good description of each one of us Americans, trained as we are to think of ourselves as individuals. To the extent we really think about others, it’s most often our immediate family members. Seldom do we conceive of ourselves as a part of a humanity that exists as a superorganism.
https://markrvickers.com/2023/07/01/humanity-as-a-superorganism/
Humanity as a Superorganism - The Reticulum
We seldom discuss humanity as a superorganism, but the idea we might make up a much larger and, hopefully, wiser collective is hard to shake
The generative AIs do no fall into the easy categories we've used in the past. In many respects, they're pretty crappy tools but in other respects they're also amazingly powerful, more like deeply flawed but oddly brilliant coworkers. I'm not sure what the right cognitive paradigm or metaphor is to use with them.
#chatgpt https://markrvickers.com/2023/06/23/ai-as-coworkers-collaborators-and-dance-partners/
AI as Coworkers and Collaborators - The Reticulum
Yes, the new generative AIs are tools, but it often makes more sense to view the AIs as coworkers and collaborators
Things may happen very quickly in Russia this weekend. This map comes from the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/24/world/russia-ukraine-newsThere are any EE Cummings fans or, especially, scholars out there, I'd love for them to weigh in this question of whether he wrote a 1942 letter to the New York Times regarding the Holocaust. I believe it's an
#AI confabulation but would like to be sure. I've marked this sensitive since it deals with antisemitism.
https://markrvickers.com/2023/06/22/is-bard-hallucinating-a-woke-ee-cummings/Is Bard Hallucinating a "Woke" EE Cummings? - The Reticulum
In "Is Bard Hallucinating?", I try to discover whether a famous poet is an antisemite and uncover some of the most important AI drawbacks
I've been thinking about the differences between the technosphere and the technium. Nerdy, I know, but I think AI's emerging place in the technium is radically transforming our role in our own technosphere.
A Brief History of Human Technology - The Reticulum
A Brief History of Human Technology lists many technological through the ages, illustrating how technology has sped up
Little Boxes in Mar-a-Lago
[Sung to the tune of “Little Boxes” by Melvina Reynolds]
Little boxes in Mar-a-Lago
Little boxes moved by Trumpy Dumpy
Little boxes at Mar-a-Lago
Little boxes not the same
https://markrvickers.com/2023/06/10/little-boxes-in-mar-a-lago/
Little Boxes in Mar-a-Lago - The Reticulum
Little Boxes in Mar-a-Lago is a satire song sung to the turn of the famous "Little Boxes" song written by Melvina Reynolds
