Category: post-contemporary
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les gardiens dialogiques de l’empathie
Boa noite, caro chat AI 🙂 Que me diz a isto: SORA, um murro no estômago da indústria publicitária, que vai sobretudo dispensar muitos criativos, e um incremento colossal do já extraordinário potencial de adição das redes sociais sobre milhares de milhões de pessoas, mesmo nos grandes países dominados por ditaduras. Hoje ao almoço, num…
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About the perils and opportunities of super-intelligence
Geoffrey Hinton: “Well, let me tell you why I think (AI) it’s superior. It’s digital. And because it’s digital, you can simulate a neural network on one piece of hardware. And you can simulate the same neural network on a different piece of hardware. So you can have clones of the same intelligence…” […] When…
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Museu dos provérbios 4
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Proverbs of Scotland, by Alexander HislopThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle:…
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Democracy Maps — cognitive art with a civic skeleton
In an ideal world, democracy accepts certain limits on freedom, while liberty remains vigilant against democracy’s discreet tendency toward absolute power. Democracy Maps (©ACP, 2012 – ) is a minimal civic skeleton that links data, deliberation, and culture to make better public decisions — while keeping the creative and scientific process offstage for now. [diagram]…
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White men are wordy
Conversa com o LLM Perplexity sobre a necessidade e as limitações da ideologia woke Prompt Comente esta afirmação que me ocorreu enquanto lia* La Potière Jalouse, de Claude Lévi-Srauss, mais precisamente depois de ter lido a frase “White men are wordy”, atribuída aos índios Menomini: — O pós-Estruturalismo, de Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault,…
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Maiêutica e machine learning e a ausência de subjetividade na IA
Segue-se uma interação sobre este tema com a plataforma IA da Perplexity PROMPT #1 — Que semelhanças e diferenças existem entre ‘machine learning’ e a ‘maiêutica’ socrática? Perplexity, resposta Semelhanças principais Ambas envolvem processos de aprendizagem e descoberta: a maiêutica estimula o aluno a descobrir o conhecimento por si mesmo, enquanto o machine learning “descobre”…
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Museu dos provérbios
Provérbios portugueses Sobre os meses do ano Janeiro Fevereiro Março Abril Maio Junho Julho Agosto Setembro Outubro Novembro Dezembro Conversa com a IA Segue-se uma breve conversa com o Perplexity sobre a relação entre os provérbios portugueses e a respetiva cultura. Prompt: Eis uma lista (incompleta) de provérbios portugueses. Deduzir uma síntese sobre a filosofia…
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Invisibles and the Parliament of Others
Invisible Others As I define who the main constituencies of the Parliament of Others would be, the sea can only be a major one. I placed it in a section called ‘Hyperobjects.’ Allan Sekula and Noel Burch wrote the following texts for their essay film, The Forgotten Space. Both deserve to be in the Parliament…
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Intelligent Art
“…the idea of ‘intelligence’ is itself emotional rather than mathematical.” — Alan Turing, “Intelligent Machinery”. Link. Memory and neural connection speed are the main properties of computer machines. Human brains’ advantage is that errors and learning from mistakes do not compromise the human ‘machinery’, which has not been the case with computers. The Greek term…
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I had a dream
Due to their strategically active cerebral nature, dreams should ultimately have a place in the Parliament of Others. Last night I dreamt I was walking through a vast exhibition in an important, yet unnamed, museum, enveloped in a haze of images. Three or four rooms displayed conceptual works. I was there at the pre-opening, surrounded…
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