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Title: Alex Reid – professor of digital rhetoric, media, and artificial intelligence

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Toward the end of his life, Timothy Leary began discussing the possibility of the internet as electronic LSD. Chaos and Cyber Culture is an amazing and curious artifact of the early web. There you might learn how to become an amphibian, as Lear...


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In the pursuit of artificial intelligence, we might consider Nietzsche’s remark that the human “intellect has no further mission that would lead beyond human life. It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance.” Mythologically, the AI is a non-human version of the human intellect, but could it ever have more significance than our own insignific...


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The general advice I would give to my arts and humanities colleagues as they address AI is the cliché martial arts fight scene advice:

Trust your training!

From a broadly-conceived humanities critical theoretical approach, what is artificial intelligence? If we want to talk about artificial intelligence as a term invented at conference at Dartmout...


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This is basically what you think it is. No intentional AI use. (I realize we’re soaking in it, but this is about experience.)

This is something I am doing for myself. As part of my research approach, I engage with the media I am studying. In the 90s I learned HTML, then later other tools. Then it was blogging and social media. But I’ve largely ended my enga...


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In the nineties we had the science wars (Wikipedia article if you are unfamiliar). Basically though it was a conflict between scientists and the cultural study/philosophy of science. Scientists objected to scholars who framed their work as cultural rather than objective. This ...


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