Spådomar om AI.
it’s when some almost human-level AGI algorithms, on petaflop computers, are let loose on exaflop supercomputers, that machine super intelligence might suddenly come into being – with results that might be completely unpredictable.
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Hypnosis - End Title (Blade Runner)
Replicants jack to this. Anonymous friend Noah dug this up on vinyl somewhere over the weekend and played it for me last night and now here I am coming up for air after a very thorough Internet search mission. I found it.
FANTASMI MACCHINA, the blog I found it on, has a rapidshare link to several Hypnosis records and a TON of other really hard to find and out of print music. I’m gonna have to spend some time there digging through all the goodies.
Fruktansvärt fet!
Uppdatering: Får mig att tänka på Air - Soleil Est Pres De Moi (Dopplereffekt remix)
Tubeway Army / Gary Numan - Are ‘friends’ electric? (1979)
Från albumet Replicas.
Wikipedia: …”Numan’s fascination with dystopian science fiction and, more importantly, synthesizers”
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Aurora Australis
Bilder på Aurora Australis ovanför South Pole Telescope, Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica från US National Science Foundation.
i love the hard transition blips, but i’m not so keen on the overly bright shapes. the monochrome shape, floating above the planet, invokes a sense of fear & doom that i find oddly appealing. it’d be interesting to see what one could do using just sound files/images available from nasa’s archives. possible future assignment?
Varför inte piffa upp hemmet med en stilren robot som odlar skönt, grönt hår?
Du placerar ”torvpuckarna” i I grobot, sår gräsfröna, vattnar, och inom några veckor ser du hur roboten kommer till liv.
Mer rolig och charmig än snygg.
Lawrence Cepstral - Supernova
Videon är gjord utav Siggi Eggertsson. Bonuspoäng för Battlestar Galactica referens.
Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova?
Ellen Tigh: No.
Brother Cavil: No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.
Ellen Tigh: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.
Brother Cavil: I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to – I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly because I have to – I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I’m a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I’m trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!
T&T och Createmake rapporterar.
