I was struck by the comment from Trevor Paglen in the Winter 2024 issue of Aperture that The theory of perception underlying so much of AI and computer vision is shockingly bad from a humanities perspective. There was a time in the “recent past” in which there was non-trivial overlap …
Three ways of improving understanding: Curve Fitting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): a not entirely monotonic scale of performance A working paper to help me think through the categories of capabilities that align with each Current technology seems to primarily consist of slick statistical correlations of the …
Reading Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick made me hyper sensitive to aesthetic evaluations that were primarily based upon the level of …
by Andreas Keller I’ve had a background interest in the sense of smell since reading Luca Turin’s The Secret of Scent back in …
In his article “Scrolling,” Gavin Francis mistakenly blames devices for the deleterious effects of the apps that run on them. There …
The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch Note: many of the quotes use the term consciousness, which I think that has …
Andy Goldsworthy’s Leaning Into The Wind is primarily another chapter in his ongoing documentation of what he’s been working on lately, but …
Note: In this post I’m discussing viewing art that was not originally intended to be viewed online, e.g., paintings, sculptures, etc. that …
Inside out comes from this appleworld post Which, although it’s in reference to something a bit different (head mounted mixed reality displays), …
Reading the (in)famous recent letter in Harpers https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ and the responses it engendered. I was struck that I hadn’t seen anything addressing …