A Conversation With Klint Finley About AI and Ethics

by Damien

I spoke with Klint Finley, known to this parish, over at WIRED about Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft’s new joint ethics and oversight venture, which they’ve dubbed the “Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society.” They held a joint press briefing, yesterday, in which Yann LeCun, Facebook’s director of AI, and Mustafa Suleyman, the head of applied AI at DeepMind discussed what it was that this new group would be doing out in the world.

This isn’t the first time I’ve talked to Klint about the intricate interplay of machine intelligence, ethics, and algorithmic bias; we discussed it earlier just this year, for WIRED’s AI Issue. It’s interesting to see the amount of attention this topic’s drawn in just a few short months, and while I’m trepidatious about the potential implementations, as I note in the piece, I’m really fairly glad that more people are increasingly willing to have this discussion, at all.

To see my comments and read the rest of the article, click through, above.

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An Interview With Problem Glyphs’ Eliza Gauger

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by Damien

If you look at the painting, illustration, and figure drawing work of Eliza Gauger, you wouldn’t be wrong if you thought you saw the visual influence of the likes of Egon Schiele, and an overall thematic investigation of the grotesque. Additionally, Gauger’s work on the absurdist Jerk City comic showcases a familiarity with both Dadaism and meme culture, but basically the opposite of how pretentious that makes it sound. On top of visual art, Gauger has done work in music and been an active and charismatic figure online for over a decade. But the project that’s been taking up the majority of their time, lately, has much more in common with chaos magick and the works of Austin Osman Spare than their previous endeavours.

Since 2013 Gauger has been creating Problem Glyphs, through the process of leaving their Tumblr ask box open to anonymous comments, and reading the problems of those who offered them up. Gauger then created visual representations of sigilized imagery, meant to evoke the shape of and the path through the issue. I’ll let them tell you more about it, below, but the long and the short of it is, Problem Glyphs were a runaway success.

As the questions kept pouring in, it eventually became clear that Gauger had struck a current, and that a massively cathartic process was being shared by many people, and now, three years later, a book collection is being developed. From the Kickstarter campaign:

The Problem Glyphs art book contains 100 glyphs and their associated submissions, accompanied by an introduction by Eliza Gauger and a foreword by award-winning writer, Warren Ellis. Problem Glyphs will be a premium edition, display-worthy art book, measuring 10x12" and featuring a Smyth sewn, genuine clothbound hard cover with gold foil-stamped cover illustrations. The estimated 220 interior pages will be printed on beautiful matte coated art paper. Tremendous care has gone into every aspect of the book, from its binding to its typography, the beautiful and storied Doves Type.

I got the chance to have a tarot-based conversation with Eliza Gauger, to discuss the origins, impact, and future of Problem Glyphs…

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An Interview With Problem Glyphs’ Eliza Gauger

by Damien

If you look at the painting, illustration, and figure drawing work of Eliza Gauger, you wouldn’t be wrong if you thought you saw the visual influence of the likes of Egon Schiele, and an overall thematic investigation of the grotesque. Additionally, Gauger’s work on the absurdist Jerk City comic showcases a familiarity with both Dadaism and meme culture, but basically the opposite of how pretentious that makes it sound. On top of visual art, Gauger has done work in music and been an active and charismatic figure online for over a decade. But the project that’s been taking up the majority of their time, lately, has much more in common with chaos magick and the works of Austin Osman Spare than their previous endeavours.

Since 2013 Gauger has been creating Problem Glyphs, through the process of leaving their Tumblr ask box open to anonymous comments, and reading the problems of those who offered them up. Gauger then created visual representations of sigilized imagery, meant to evoke the shape of and the path through the issue. I’ll let them tell you more about it, below, but the long and the short of it is, Problem Glyphs were a runaway success.

As the questions kept pouring in, it eventually became clear that Gauger had struck a current, and that a massively cathartic process was being shared by many people, and now, three years later, a book collection is being developed. From the Kickstarter campaign:

The Problem Glyphs art book contains 100 glyphs and their associated submissions, accompanied by an introduction by Eliza Gauger and a foreword by award-winning writer, Warren Ellis. Problem Glyphs will be a premium edition, display-worthy art book, measuring 10x12" and featuring a Smyth sewn, genuine clothbound hard cover with gold foil-stamped cover illustrations. The estimated 220 interior pages will be printed on beautiful matte coated art paper. Tremendous care has gone into every aspect of the book, from its binding to its typography, the beautiful and storied Doves Type.

I got the chance to have a tarot-based conversation with Eliza Gauger, to discuss the origins, impact, and future of Problem Glyphs…

Read the rest of “An Interview With Problem Glyphs’ Eliza Gauger” at Technoccult.net

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Niche Reaper 3.0 Review and Bonus

Niche Reaper 3.0 Review and Bonus -http://shinyobjectreviews.com/internet-marketing-tools/niche-reaper/ - I know just what the past, I've straight are not home were searching for things that hundreds of people were into, however really did not recognize. You have to ask on your own is this particular niche going to be lucrative and is there any kind of purchaser intent or is it simply some of the kind adorable craze?

My suggestions to you, as discover a high niche that isn't entirely filled with some people associates aiming to earn money as well as quietly bring in the large bucks as well as keep your mouth closed about where are you were getting all those huge heaps of money.

Nitch Reaper 3.0 it Is upgraded virtually daily with new keyword phrases in which they have setter criteria both search volume, commercial intent, or even the ordinary earnings-per-click! Niche Reaper 3.0 will certainly take a great deal of the guesswork out for you as well as simply by rejuvenating the program and scanning it for new enteries you may strike upon your next Goldmine.

It is far better to be king for a day well then fool for a lifetime!

If you made the choice to quit your day work, or your dream is to begin making cash online, before you think of anything you need to select a niche. Yes, you can make cash online do not let the naysayers maintain you from your desire. Will you be making $50,000 a month, doing only 30 minutes of work or if your trophy partner?

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Niche Reaper 3.0 Review and Bonus

Niche Reaper 3.0 Review and Bonus -http://shinyobjectreviews.com/internet-marketing-tools/niche-reaper/ - I know just what the past, I've straight are not home were searching for things that hundreds of people were into, however really did not recognize. You have to ask on your own is this particular niche going to be lucrative and is there any kind of purchaser intent or is it simply some of the kind adorable craze?

My suggestions to you, as discover a high niche that isn't entirely filled with some people associates aiming to earn money as well as quietly bring in the large bucks as well as keep your mouth closed about where are you were getting all those huge heaps of money.

Nitch Reaper 3.0 it Is upgraded virtually daily with new keyword phrases in which they have setter criteria both search volume, commercial intent, or even the ordinary earnings-per-click! Niche Reaper 3.0 will certainly take a great deal of the guesswork out for you as well as simply by rejuvenating the program and scanning it for new enteries you may strike upon your next Goldmine.

It is far better to be king for a day well then fool for a lifetime!

If you made the choice to quit your day work, or your dream is to begin making cash online, before you think of anything you need to select a niche. Yes, you can make cash online do not let the naysayers maintain you from your desire. Will you be making $50,000 a month, doing only 30 minutes of work or if your trophy partner?

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On Space, Witches, Mars, Magick, and The Future

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Last week, Artsy.net’s Izabella Scott wrote this piece about how and why the aesthetic of witchcraft is making a comeback in the art world, which is pretty pleasantly timed as not only are we all eagerly awaiting Kim Boekbinder’s NOISEWITCH, but I also just sat down with Rose Eveleth for the Flash Forward Podcast to talk for her season 2 finale.…

On Space, Witches, Mars, Magick, and The Future was originally published on A Future Worth Thinking About

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