‘Artificial’ Is a Horror Film of Our Horrific Times
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, uncovers the rot at the heart of the American dream with help from a diabolical Andrew Garfield.
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AI in Theatre Performs Best Offstage
Amid relentless digital speed, shrinking attention spans, and synthetic storytelling, the moment the house lights dim and the spotlight illuminates the living actor, the domain of AI comes to an abrupt halt.
William Lessard on Vibe Coding Poetry in Our Era of AI
Pre-Musk Twitter drew writer/visual artist William Lessard back to poetry. He adapts to current AI tech with his latest “vibe coding” project, /face.
In Love with ‘Her’ Hallucination in Our Era of Rising AI
Spike Jonze’s Her is a work of art that is far more influential than predictive; ahead of its time in exploring the murky obsessions and ambiguities that haunt our relationship with AI.
Fembot Despair in Olivia Gatwood’s ‘Whoever You Are, Honey’
Olivia Gatwood’s women struggle with feeling that their lives are over after a trauma to their bodies. The fembot in Whoever You Are, Honey despairs there are none.
How Rap’s Civil War Was Shaped by AI
The recent “Rap Civil War” accelerated the use of AI in rap music and, as with digital sampling, creatives will use it regardless of the implications.
The Idols of the Twilight: AI in Our Age of Inventive Divination
In their pseudo-creativity and occasionally malevolent capriciousness, generative AI programs resemble an order of magical spirits from another age.
AI, Humanics, Paradox: Towards Being Human in the Tech Workplace
If the future of work is interaction with intelligent machine counterparts, workers’ cognitive and emotional experiences will undergo a seismic shift.
What Lurks in AI’s Shadow: Separating Fact from Fiction
Artificial Intelligence is a prime example of how technological narratives can affect our relationship with technologies, as evidenced in ChatGPT Sydney’s struggle to contemplate its Jungian shadow.
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Us Become More Human? Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner Says Yes
In this interview with Jan St. Werner, the veteran electronic musician discusses how Mouse on Mars have attempted to blur the distinction between machine intelligence and empathy on their new album AAI.
Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel’s Essays Make It Fun to Ponder, ‘Am I a Jerk?
Eric Schwitzgebel's excellent and accessible philosophy in A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures would be great at parties—just open up to any random three-page essay, read it aloud, and let the conversation flow.
A Man, a Woman, a Brooding Replicant and Readership: On Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’
Purists who see Ian McEwan's comments about science fiction and his novel, Machines Like Me, as a slight against their beloved literary genre are missing the point.