Article: Simulation and simulacra
The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard argued that postmodern culture had become so reliant on representations of reality that it wasContinue Reading
Tag: artificial intelligence
Podcast: Simulation – Deep fakes, image as sacrament, David Beckham in Mandarin and therapy chatbots
We live in an era when digital technology is making it increasingly easy and cheap to create fake but compellingContinue Reading
Briefing: AI and digital technologies
Below is a briefing paper I prepared on recent developments in artificial intelligence and digital technologies, as well as someContinue Reading
Review: ‘The Technological Singularity’ by Murray Shanahan
Shanahan is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London, and writes with authority and clarity about the possibility ofContinue Reading
Review: ‘The Technology Trap – Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation’ by Carl Benedikt Frey
Carl Frey is an economist at Oxford University where he directs the Future of Work programme at the Oxford MartinContinue Reading