• 5 Sunday Reads – April 9th

  • Bicameral Mind and Hallucination

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    I find Julian Jaynes theory interesting when looking at Artificial Intelligence hallucinations. Julian Jaynes proposes the concept of the bicameral mind in the book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. He proposes that verbal hallucinations were common and ubiquitous in Ancient societies and were the precursor to consciousness as we […]

  • 5 Sunday Reads – April 2nd

  • Music and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

    Music is the universal human language. The language of the universe, hypnotizing everything from celestial bodies, humans, and animals. Neural networks like NSynth and Riffusion are using algorithms to generate music. The output might not be the next radio banger but that may be due to the training models being less effective than the art […]

  • Art and the Divine

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    Logos –  Quite literally meaning the word or discourse. The pre-Socratic philosopher  Heraclitus associated the logos with fire. The symbology of word and fire were one. For Hindu philosophers, the creative word was AUM. The word logos is occasionally used in other contexts, such as for “ratio” in mathematics. This concept of words and AI’s […]

  • Is ChatGPT Sublime and Uncanny?

    When I first saw the Microsoft future of work video I felt elated, excited, fearful, and in awe all at the same time. The technology I was seeing injected into my reality was sublime. It has been a little over a week since the announcement and I started to wonder, is ChatGPT uncanny? Surely, something […]

  • 5 Sunday Reads – March 26th

  • Quote of the Day

    Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. Eric S. Raymond

  • Societal Biases in AI

    I want to start this post with a quote: “If you take away from reality the symbolic fictions that regulate it, you lose reality itself.” Slavoj Žižek For Žižek, ideology is consciousness. The inspiration for the artwork was Jupiter and Semele by Gustave Moreau. While an obscure reference, we can excuse the AI for assigning […]

  • Fear is a Powerful Emotion

    The current fear of AI brings the thought of Saturn to mind. Saturn was the most ambitious of his siblings as he was willing to disobey and overthrow his father. The tyrannical father is represented in mythology as the devouring father, usually associated with Chronos and Saturn. Saturn, fearing his children would have his same […]