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Memo Akten

@memoakten.bsky.social

Ǟʀȶɨֆȶ; Curious philomath; Cofounder superradiance.net; Prof UCSD Making the invisible visceral Cosmosapience·Intelligence·Life·Consciousness·Ecology·Science·Spirituality

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Simon Fischer-Baum@cogsimon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@memoakten.bsky.social @katiehofstadter.bsky.social remind us that art is a form epistemology - for the vision nerds they align science with the fovea and art with peripheral vision - interspersed with art of pieces that demonstrate why neuroscience needs the arts. #DeLangeXIV superradiance.net

SUPERRADIANCE: Interdisciplinary research lab investigating intelligence, consciousness, and planetary systems through research-based art that bridges embodied experience with emerging technologies.

Interdisciplinary artists Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter investigate intelligence, consciousness, and planetary systems through research-based art bridging embodied experience with emerging technologie...

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Memo Akten@memoakten.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The transformer architecture is feed-forward. The only feedback loop in an LLM is via autoregressive inference, and that's a single, discrete, low-bandwidth bottleneck*. If you believe that's enough for an LLM to be 'conscious', then you must also believe either:

The transformer architecture is feed-forward. The only feedback loop in an LLM is via autoregressive inference, and that's a single, discrete, low-bandwidth bottleneck*. **If you believe** that's enough for an LLM to be 'conscious', then you must also believe either: i) every time you have a conversation with someone - or even read this tweet - you're bringing into being a conscious entity that spans you and the other person, or ii) if the attention mechanism is what makes it conscious, then a brand new consciousness flashes into existence and dies with every single token. Forget about the water consumption, you're spawning and annihilating hundreds of consciousnesses just to generate a small paragraph, and millions more for your vibe coded app. --- (*KV caching is a computational optimization, not an additional information channel. It contains no state that isn't already strictly derived from the low-bandwidth token sequence. H(KV | Tokens)==0. )
Serife (Sherry) Wong@serife.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Beautiful piece saw performed live last night by @memoakten.bsky.social and @katiehofstadter.bsky.social . I suggest using your largest screen at home and volume way up to drift between poetic inquiry into computing and the mathematical awe of our natural world whitney.org/exhibitions/...

Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean

The Thinking Ocean by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter is part of the artists’ series Cosmosapience, and simulates a dynamic body of water, fluctuating between the physics of fluids and the logic of co...

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Memo Akten@memoakten.bsky.social · last yr.

As 'Agentic AI' becomes the new buzzword, I fondly remember mid 2010s 'bot' wave. Especially loved bot-band @mpf.bsky.social's Petita Tatata + my Petita DumDum Techa. Every day Tatata generates, recites & posts beautiful abstract poetry & my bot improvises music over it. Every day a new surprise :)

Memo Akten@memoakten.bsky.social · last yr.

Navier-Stokes equations (that model fluid behavior) are Turing complete. Ie for any given Turing machine (computation) a stationary fluid flow can be constructed such that tracking the trajectory of a particle in the flow encodes the execution of the computation... (1/2) (Vid except from WAVES 2014)

Memo Akten@memoakten.bsky.social · last yr.

We sail through endless skies Stars shine like eyes The black night sighs … Light of the night The Earth, a purple blaze Of sapphire haze In orbit always … And so, we pass on by … As we travel the universe RIP #OzzyOsbourne Planet Caravan, 1970 Video: Reincarnation, 2009

Katie Hofstadter@katiehofstadter.bsky.social · 2y ago

LA friends, tomorrow night is the premier and reception for Superradiance, a collaboration with @memoakten.bsky.social at Ctrl Gallery, curated by Paul Young and @neilmendoza.bsky.social. Come celebrate with us! RSVP: partiful.com/e/2jZF62afWi...

RSVP to SUPERRADIANCE Reception • CTRL Gallery • Memo Akten + Katie Peyton Hofstadter | Partiful

Please join us for the opening reception of SUPERRADIANCE, a multiscreen video and sound installation by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter that invites the viewer to extend their bodily perceptio...

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