Sebastian Gießmann

@sebgiessmann.bsky.social

Media History | Theory | STS @Siegen Media & Culture @unicologne.bsky.social Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens 👉️ https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/das_kreditkarten-buch

Here's to The #Odyssey film we could have had: Emily #Wilson's much anticipated London Review of Books critique of Christopher #Nolan is just fantastic! Nolan's film is alright, but never achieves the grandeur of his other classic movies. It isn't quite Homer either. 👉 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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It is not the paperclip-producing AI that takes over the planet. As it turns out, it is brain rot in higher education. And a lot of other economic strategies that shall make us pay for commercial AI. ’My students know all too well what AI corporations are “working on.” They feel worked on, indeed.’

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last mo.

I asked my creative writing students to anonymously share their thoughts about AI. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Do you remember the slogan "There's no cloud, just other people's computers"? I still love it. There is this old sticker by the Free Software Foundation ... Can we update it to "There is no AI, just other people's computers"?

Logo There is no cloud, just other people's computers.

Does anyone know of an account of what was happening inside of Google‘s DeepMind c. 2015-2020? Looking for something like Karen Hao’s work— Definitely doesn’t have to be book length, but that combination of investigative reporting and narrative history.