*The new crop of AIs are not global, they’re geopolitical. *I recommend this newsletter if you’re at all interested in Chinese society and Chinese AIs. ChinAI #213: Why Can’t Chinese users access ChatGPT? Plus, my upcoming testimony at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission by JEFFREY DING FEB 20 Feature Translation: Why doesn’t ChatGPT […]

*If you want to do strange things on the Dutch-German border. VACANCY CREATIVE DIRECTOR WE WANT YOU! Big news: after decennia of contrarian energy and subversive projects PLANETART founder and Creative Director Kees de Groot will be going into retirement later this year. This means we are looking for a new Creative Director to take […]

*What a remarkable hack. https://spectrum.ieee.org/infinite-pong-with-ai THERE IS CURRENTLY A lot of interest in AI tools designed to help programmers write software. GitHub’s Copilot and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer apply deep-learning techniques originally developed for generating natural-language text by adapting it to generate source code. The idea is that programmers can use these tools as a kind of […]

by Bruce Sterling *I am currently wearing my pair of Adidas 4DFWD shoes, which is pronounced “Four-dee Forward” by the company and its shoe designer-engineers. I’m accustomed to these shoes, they’ve become my normalized, everyday shoes, even a bit banal, so it’s probably time to write a review about them. These are not the world’s […]

*Everybody wants a canon. https://tender.art/ai-artists 1. ICONS & DROPS CURATION Q: What is the purpose of the Icons list? Foremost, we want to capture interest in generative art as a movement and in particular works – whether from someone new to the space, or from an existing collector (of whatever level of dedication). We also […]

https://oio.store “In 1952 Ernesto Nathan Rogers wrote that by carefully examining an object as simple as a spoon, we could understand the kind of city and society that produced it. Inspired by his words we worked together with algorithmic machines to create a spoon for our times – the Spawn collection. It’s a spoon but […]

*ChatGPT was not designed to play chess, so it’s impresive that it can even pretend to do that. You won’t learn much about chess by watching this, but it’s an interesting insight into ChatGPT. “It lies and cheats all the time!!” Well, yes, it does, but not to its own benefit; it’s just building statistical […]

*Maybe the most Artmaker Blog headline ever. *Unfortunately these language-model AIs are not yet teaching themselves to use Leatherman multitools. They’re merely using application-interfaces for other software “tools.” That seems significant, however. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04761.pdf Language models (LMs) exhibit remarkable abilities to solve new tasks from just a few examples or textual instructions, especially at scale. They […]

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