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Something astounding happened.

So, Richard Dawkins got duped by a bot believing that language models are conscious.

I’ve been throwing around the term “Interpolatable Archives” for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence, and I finally got around to write down what I mean by that.

I’ve been throwing around the term “Interpolatable Archives” for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence, and I finally got around to write down what I mean by that.

This is the 4th and final part of my series of essays on “Interpolatable Archives”, a term I’ve been throwing around for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence.

Here’s part 3 of a series of essays on “Interpolatable Archives”, a term I’ve been throwing around for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence.

This is part 2 of a series of essays on “Interpolatable Archives”, a term I’ve been throwing around for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence.

I’ve been throwing around the term “Interpolatable Archives” for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence, and I finally got around to write down what I mean by that.

Two years ago in light of the Taylor Swift AI-porn scandal on X i wrote about the Omnipresence of the Swarm-Gaze, in which i looked beyond individual harm inflicted by “trolls” on celebrities and focused on the psychological consequences of sexual swam su…

Latent Space.

According to my Goodreads, i’ve read 31.653 pages across 76 books this year, where the average length of the book was 416 pages, with the shortest at 80 and the longest at 1504 pages.

Stephen King - You Like It Darker (dt.

I might get back into the game and post more regular in this newsletter, but meanwhile here’s some words about the latest social media hype and why it feels just about right.

Ned Beauman - Venomous Lumpsucker (dt.

About ten years ago, back in 2015, all 195 countries of the world signed the Paris Agreement, in which the nations agreed to limit global warming due to anthropogenic climate change to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to make efforts to ke…

Peter Frankopan - The Earth transformed - An untold history (dt.

Politicians burning $38.000.000.000.000 dollars in parliament. // Dall-E 3 A new paper by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has calculated the economic damages due to global warming by the year 2050, which are already "locked

Last week, OpenAI presented the latest update of ChatGPT: the chatbot can now "speak" and "converse" with users in various voices, complete with "human" filler words ("um", "uh", etc.), pauses, simulated breathing, laughter, and giggles.

Silvia Ferrara - Der Sprung: Eine Reise zu den Anfängen des Denkens in der Steinzeit (eng.

In 2015, Climate Inside News broke a blockbuster scoop: Exxon had not only been aware of the consequences of burning fossil fuels since the 1970s through its own research, but, according to new findings, had also developed its own climate models and analy…