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Tag Archives: current affairs
A few thoughts on AI (and a bit of history)
While benign and belligerent robots and machines have existed since the dawn of science fiction, it was about ten years ago that I had some sort of epiphany and gradually began saving and/or bookmarking various online articles about artificial intelligence following recent worrisome developments in that field: chatbots were showing signs of coherent speech, Boston Dynamics’ robots had started doing backflips and parkour — but it was demonstrations of autonomous weapons systems that I took particular issue with. I wanted to keep the articles as “evidence” and “for future reference” — such as for essays like this one, and to backtrack how we got to where we are now. Continue reading
Posted in History, Internet, Technology
Tagged AI, apocalypse, art, artificial intelligence, augmentation, chatbots, ChatGPT, civilisation, current affairs, digitization, dystopia, enlightenment, ethics, evolution, extinction, growth hack, humanity, man-machine, progression, Skynet, virtuality
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The smudge that was 2024
2024 is over, and that’s a good thing. It was not a good year. 2024 was, for all intents and purposes, a long blurry smudge of monotony mired in many minor personal disasters and distractions. Playing about with AI-tools and participating in numerous webinars on the topic ate into so much of my time that most projects I had planned for the year remain handwritten bullet points on a piece of paper. I also had a serious flu that may or may not have been covid, a broken tooth, a parking ticket, a speeding ticket, and a nasty case of lumbago. These are white people’s problems that don’t normally happen to me. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 2024, AI, AI image editing, babes, catastrophe, current affairs, dilemma, disaster, drama, misfortune, murder-death-kill, pain, time
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Review: 2023
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. As of 2023 I’ve officially stopped giving a shit. Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, AI, babes, corona, current affairs, humanity, John Lennon, murder-death-kill, the end is nigh
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Review: 2022
2022 was a bit of a blurry blemish despite several significant events in my personal life. If it wasn’t for calendars, one could be forgiven for feeling that we’re still in 2020 or went way back to the year 1920. Indeed, 2022 may be remembered as the fuzzy period during which the world turned into a steaming pile of shit – but only in part due to pollution or climate change: it’s humanity that’s lagging behind its own technological advances. Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, babes, chaos, corona, current affairs, devolution, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill
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Review: 2021
Although the year 2021 isn’t quite over yet, we may as well write it off now. In all honesty, sometimes I’m not sure what even happened this year because I was cooped up for most of it. I felt disconnected, as if my head was stuck in sand for most of the year — but some noteworthy events did take place after all. Continue reading
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Tagged 2021, babes, corona, current affairs, in the news, insanity, madness, murder-death-kill
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Revision: 2020
2020 was a year of infamy. It will probably go down as the year of SARS-CoV-2 but sorry, we’re still in the middle of the very same pandemic. We still have a stretch to go. Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, brexit, corona, current affairs, fire, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill, Thanos
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Civil unrest may be the second wave
The coronavirus crisis is far from over. I have returned to working from home after a symbolic three-week stint at the company office. This should be “the new normal”. Continue reading
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Tagged current affairs, in the news, murder-death-kill, racism, stupidity, Thanos, violence
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Michael Jackson
Expect reissues of his back catalogue to be in production and in the shops in a matter of days. A new double Greatest Hits on the shelves by the end of July. The definitive DVD and a plethora of unofficial biographies in time for Christmas. Family fighting over his estate will start by the end of next week. Rumours over whether he’s actually dead or not to begin circulating by sun down. Continue reading
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Tagged cruel jokes, current affairs, in the news, murder-death-kill, obituary
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