Creative machine intelligence; movies, jazz and writing. The problems of life extension. The battle f
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June 12 · Issue #66 · View online |
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Creative machine intelligence; movies, jazz and writing. The problems of life extension. The battle for the future interface. What media companies must do.Ā Tetrisā bizarre history. Tripping shamans. Living with aliens⦠in a simulation. Hope this stimulates some great conversation this week ;)
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š“š¼Ā The bleak future of life extension. Charlotte Shane: āmore rich, white men [and] not even the march of time can free us from our oligarchs.ā THOUGHT PROVOKING
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š Exponential View is closing in on 10,000 readers. To say thank you to all of you, 25 readers can get a free copy of Sam Arbesmanās new book, Overcomplicated. Sam is Scientist-in-residence at Lux Capital.Ā
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šĀ Space Odyssey 2001 rendered in the style of Picasso. STUNNING. Bhautik Joshi applies semantic style transfer to take us from Kubrick to cubist. He previously set van Gogh onto Blade Runner. This type of semantic style transfer is novel. It really only emerged earlier this year, but the technique is out in the wild and the hackers are hacking. This is progress through proliferation.Ā Ā (Weāve written about recurrent neural networks generating text, e.g. EV reader, Samimās work to generate political speeches using RNNs, EV#12) Can we use computational methods to better understand art? This is what visual stylometry aims to do, using ācomputational and statistical methods to calculate and compare these underlying image features in ways humans never could before. Instead of relying only on what our senses perceive, we can use these mathematical techniques to discover novel insights into artists and artworks.ā Ā
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More than half of humanity lives in cities, but their vibrancy is fragile. Jonathan Glancey on the hollowing out of cities: āWe need to seed our city centres and their inner rings, especially those that have been hollowed out, with new forms of enterprise, production and manufacture.ā
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Nuclear Trump: what would it mean to have the Donaldās finger on the red button? Gripping read.
fMRI study of shamans tripping out shows stronger functionally connectivity with the posterior cingulate cortex. (Something is happening, they arenāt just closing their eyes and flailing their hands.) š½Ā Yes, there have been aliens. āThe pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational.ā
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Congrats to the following EV subscribers for their OBEs and MBEs in the Queenās Birthday Honours list this year: Mike Butcher, Saul Klein, Alice Bentinck, Wendy Tan White & Matt Clifford. (Know someone who got an honour who isnāt reading EV? Time to invite them to subscribe!) EV reader,Ā Moritz Mueller-Freitag, on ā 10 Data Acquisition Strategies for Startupsā. Rather good if you are building a product with machine learning in it. (Which I assume is any digital product or any service-based offer which has capacity for optimisation.)
Silicon Valley has a problem problem. Riva Melissa Tez: āAs part of the startup ecosystem weāve overemphasized the need for CEOs to sell us a vision to the point of dishonesty.ā
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