Comic | Learning to Dance with AI
For the past seven years, I’ve been writing and drawing a book about Artificial Intelligence, specifically about a large language model built from a family archive.
For the past seven years, I’ve been writing and drawing a book about Artificial Intelligence, specifically about a large language model built from a family archive.
AI is the brainchild of cognitive scientists, computer programmers and physicists; it raises problems for politicians, journalists and philosophers; and it’s alive in the imaginations of artists, cartoonists and science fiction writers. We’ve asked people from all these fields how best to approach this astounding moment in human history.
It was with some trepidation that we decided to bring the matter of food to the great AI Oz.
This May, climate action organization Dayenu released “Rising Tides, Rising Voices: Songs for the Jewish Climate Movement,” a digital songbook, which brings together a diverse set of songs—Jewish and secular, English and Hebrew, chanted and sung—for Jewish climate activism.
In 2012, days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, historian Garry Wills wrote an impassioned essay in The New York Review of Books.
In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination.
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal.
After Italian philosopher Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980), to worldwide critical acclaim and instant bestsellerdom, scores of major humanities scholars started thinking about fiction as a possible genre for them too.
Forsaking one’s native country for another place can create an odd mix of new and old identities.
The protests. The raised fists and raised voices.
Isaac Asimov’s work is foundational to much of modern AI. But his robots were programmed to be truthful, and the programming mostly worked.
Book bans are about both control and terror.