Here's Ted on photography v writing :) in First Encounters with AI. His skepticism comes from the way LLMs work and are used - but he doesn't close the possibility of a different machine being more useful for art.
What is college if knowledge, teaching, and advising are available from machines? One model has answers to many challenges that AI is posing today: residential education where students learn from each other to be bold, original, and uniquely human while living, eating and socializing together.
begus.substack.com/p/the-fut…
My coping mechanism in the age of AI: write more Proto-Indo-European papers.
Here’s a story on the origin of PIE mobility. I argue that in Pre-PIE, a rule operated that whereby heavy syllables attracted stress from the root to the ending. I focus on root nouns and verbs.
Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language.
Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages:
latentspacecraft.antikythera…
Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion!
Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language.
Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages:
latentspacecraft.antikythera…
Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion!
Philosophy is coming alive again through frontier science and tech. I think we should do literally everything possible to support this energy and launch an intellectual and cultural renaissance in America. bury inherited boring tropes in waves of strange, curious, ambitious inquiry and experiment
Two to three more Millenium problem are rumored to be solved. It's time to switch to questions with no provable answers!
Academia will flourish when we go back to our roots. Meet George of Trebizond. A 15th century scholar who wrote endless pages thrashing Plato and revering Aristotle. He had a great life in Rome.
Siblings are finally united!
What is writing and reading in the time of AI?
Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities.
When a paper becomes a piece of art.
We’re exhibiting our Latent Spacecraft GAN models with @mthvn@begusgasper at the Hidden Layers exhibition.
Come see the artworks at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley. The opening reception is today, 9/3, and we run until 10/3.
Siblings are finally united!
What is writing and reading in the time of AI?
Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities.
When a paper becomes a piece of art.
We’re exhibiting our Latent Spacecraft GAN models with @mthvn@begusgasper at the Hidden Layers exhibition.
Come see the artworks at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley. The opening reception is today, 9/3, and we run until 10/3.