thinking of how to apply a programming term to the functions inside a human being. That's where this curiosity about the term "subroutine" started. I haven't yet read extensively about it but as far as I have read, it sounds like something we could say to describe the fundamental "wiring" of a person too. As was my exploration in Intimate Immensity, this one too wants to deal with what makes us who we are - often without us consciously processing these functions ourselves.

(29/11/22)

some sources:

Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Capitalist economics is extremely sensitive to hyperstition, where confidence acts as an effective tonic, and inversely. The (fictional) idea of Cyberspace contributed to the influx of investment that rapidly converted it into a technosocial reality.

introduction to ai by nikola jajcay:

06/03/2024

- ai/ml is a black box, anything for which we don’t understand the inner workings (requiring input to create any output)
- how the mind works is a black box
- AI today is essentially a compression tool, “probably” not sentient
- “collective dynamics” (sceintific reductionism vs holistic approach)
- “primer” in ML
- convolutional (spatial awareness) x recurrent (time awareness) networks
- generative AI: generative adverserial network
- he called predictive AI boring cuz its more useful for making human life better
- SORA model criticism
- human moral, value system and its complexity inhibits us from teaching machines from learning morality ?
- understanding AI could help us to learn human intelligence (wild shit)

questions
1. in what ways is the AI industry dealing with biases in the models? during the training stage of the model. PHEW. barely addresses it. 4/10. ok asked him specifically and got a decent answer 7/10.
2. depiction of ai in popular culture or media? he said space odyssey

look up:
- chaos, universality
- cellular automata; as a way to understand evolution (via artificial chemistry)
- self organisation
- tiktok algorithm; machine learning
- McCulloch and Pitts (og model of artificial neuron)
- back propagational mathematics
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (AI, ML)
- Psycho Pass (AI, ML)
- Weapons of Math Destruction 2016 book
- singularity x AI

talks on concerns about ai by łukasz białkowski:

19/03/2024

- mainstream narrative of distrust, fear due to misuse and unpredictable nature of ai
- this exhibition does not exist (krakow 2023 gallery asp)
- “we are dealing with a phenomenon whose mechanics we do not understand”
- current fears of ai in culture are mirroring previous loops of fears of new technologies in the past
- vilem flusser’ fears of popular images — humans will become less and less competent and more and more reliant on apparatuses
- andrew keen (the cult of amateur) — little bitch man
- R Winiarski, Triptichon 1966
- Liam Gillick “Contigent Factors” in reaction to Claire Bishops’ “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics”
- Super human fallacy by Seymour Papert -- (keya: but ai does not have the burden of being alive or corporeal. i would expect it to do better than us solely because of that.)
- ~ death of the author ~
- investigating american and chinese subjects’ explicit and implicit perceptions of AI generated artistic work — research paper
- does an emotional connection to art really require a human artist? research paper