The old world is dying. And the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. – Antonio Gramsci (via Slavoj Žižek) How lucky we are to live in interesting times. Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the beginning of a historic transformation in world politics. Like everything else in […]
Read more "AI policy in the time of monsters"TL;DR: Major AI companies are racing to build the world’s biggest data centers in a hail mary attempt at AGI. We don’t know whether that will be enough to build AGI. But what seems certain, if you look 2 moves ahead, is that we’re already in the first stages of an AI-driven cold war with […]
Read more "AGI or AI Winter: What’s Next? An exploration of narratives"So who’s seen Milo? Those of you who are avid gamers like me know what (who?) I’m talking about. The Natal system was unveiled last week during E3: a motion-sensing, controllerless interface for the Xbox. It’s bleeding-edge stuff. The system performs motion-capture in real time, can recognize faces and voices, and allows for a whole […]
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Philip Trippenbach 