AI can’t escape its past. Not the hype-cycle that keeps helping it evade regulators. Nor the roots of its computing in colonialism and worker control TECHNOLOGY, INGENUITY, SOCIO-POLITICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, MASCULINE, FEMININE, FUTURESpat kane29 May 2023colonialism, decolonisation, computation, artificial intelligenceComment
“The weirdness right in front of us”. In trying to ensure AIs align with human interests, can we be open to learning new things about them - and ourselves? PLANETARIAN, TECHNOLOGY, INGENUITY, LEARNING, FUTURES, BEHAVIOURpat kane16 December 2022artificial intelligence, computation, alignment Comments
Do you want to be a “planetarian”? Then computation will have to be your friend, more than your enemy. Welcome to the Antikythera project PLANETARIAN, PLANET A, BIG PICTURE, FUTURES, GLOBALISTS, TECHNOLOGYpat kane5 October 2022computation, planetaryComment
What if artificial intelligence was really artificial time? And superintelligence was really superhistory? A startling reframe from Venkatesh Rao LEARNING, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY, INGENUITYpat kane1 July 2021artificial intelligence, artificial time, super intelligence, super history, computationComment
Buddhism and Computing: how to flourish in the age of algorithms - a new book by Paul Trafford TECHNOLOGY, PRACTICE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, INGENUITY, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, CREATE THE FEELpat kane1 May 2021Buddhism, computationComment
Quantum computing steadily advances, promising to improve batteries, crack encryption, simulate nature's complexity TECHNOLOGY, INGENUITY, BUILD THE ECONOMY, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane6 November 2020quantum shift, computation, quantum computers, artificial intelligence Comment
For philosopher Yuk Hui, reducing everything to data reduces our humanity. And we can turn to Chinese thought for an alternative TECHNOLOGY, BIG PICTURE, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kane30 June 2020china, chinese thought, cybernetics, computationComment
