“What is the subject?” I was getting closer to the problem. “Frustration.” There was a pause as he adjusted the tip of his quill. “You’ve just named it.” “I’m allowed to name it in conversation. I’m not allowed to name it on the parchment.”More
Tag Archives: AI
Points of view
What not to do. Media inevitably influence the configuration, evolution, design and experience of cities. Here’s what AI generated video reveals and conceals.More
How you feel when no one is listening
Briefly reviews important theories about where emotions occur (from the brain to the world) and invites an AI to insert the implications of conversational AI, before settling on a view centred on language.More
This is not the age of AI
Labels like “age of AI” simplify complex issues, overshadowing individual experiences and who defines them.More
The AI skillset
AI reveals and reshapes architectural practice, highlighting tasks, roles, and knowledge responsibilities previously overlooked.More
Is anyone paying attention?
How AI seems to be paying attention to users and their every word.More
Why a neural network forgets
Conversational AI, such as ChatGPT, has limited capacity to recall the content of earlier conversations. OpenAI does not disclose all the details of its operations, but scholars estimate that ChatGPT4 can process and recall up to 10,000 words in a single session or thread. That’s a substantial improvement on earlier models, but it doesn’t ensure…More
Welcome to the Apocalypse
Not everyone is averse to the prospect of a global AI-induced apocalypse. Catastrophizing circumstances and events caries a certain appeal to some, in particular those who identify with the status of a powerless underclass. Let social, political and economic systems fall! Let AI take over! I think here of those who identify as dispossessed, who…More
Generalised AI as existential threat
Many specialised AI applications are acceptably proficient in identifying people, animals and other objects in pictures, in searching databases, winning at chess and in many other areas invisible to most users, such as controlling factory production lines, navigating aerial vehicles, surveillance, medical imaging, diagnosis, and aspects of smart city infrastructures. That’s “narrow” AI. But general artificial…More
Attention is everything
Attention is a key element in cognition. At our most thoughtful we direct attention to features in our environment that are most important to us at that moment. Attention can wander, of course, we daydream, and we can pay attention to inexistent things, memories and objects of the imagination. A lecturer will come to the…More