Posts tagged ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Another Kind of Magic: Méliès, Mercury, and Machine Learning
Another Kind of Magic: Méliès, Mercury, and Machine Learning

The music video for Queen’s “Heaven for Everyone” from their then-final record Made in Heaven (1995) - and a song that originally appeared on Shove It (1991), an album by drummer Roger Taylor’s side project The Cross (and featuring Freddie Mercury as a guest vocalist) - includes somewhat surprisingly footage from Georges Méliès’ early ‘trick’ films A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904).

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EDITORIALChristopher HollidayTECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VOICE, STARDOM, CELEBRITY, DIGITALComment
The Case for Progress: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Neuralink
The Case for Progress: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Neuralink

What if you could Google search in your mind? What if you could have a much better memory? Be effortlessly good at arithmetic, or able to suddenly display a talent for drawing or composing music ? What if you could communicate your thoughts and feelings in rich detail directly to another specific human being without speaking? What if you could become much smarter? What would you do?

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EDITORIALVictoria BaltagARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ROBOTS, MACHINE, POSTHUMANISMComment