Natural History of the Future
Rob Brooks, Athena Aktipis PhDEvolution, culture and technology, and how they interact in the 21st century. Home of the Artificial Intimacy Newsletter.
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Artificial Intimacy News #18
Darwin Among the Machines. Prompt: Darwin in the middle ground with a steam train in the background. In the style of JWM Turner.
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What happens when AI can evolve?
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Humans pretending to be chatbots, bringing bac...
Evolvable AI: are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?
Credit: Alejandro Quintanar/Pexels
What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date?
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If you want to understand evolution – or AI – don't get hung up on mechanisms
African grey parrot sent from the future to discuss mechanisms, functions and their relation to selection.
It has been encouraging to see recent opposition to some popular but misguided characterisations of AI. Most notably, the idea that...
Artificial Intimacy News #17
Mother and infant in the style of Picasso’s “Maternité”. Interesting that ChatGPT put a cubist spin on what was originally a blue period painting. AI huh?
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AI’s that mother the whole of humanity?
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Are you an AI-...
A Real Maternal AI Would Want You to Be Nicer - To Everyone
Geoffrey Hinton has a proposal for keeping superintelligent AI under control: make it love us like a mother loves her baby. Babies are less intelligent than their mothers and still manage to get what they need. Mothers are wired to put thei...
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Evolutionary biologist at UNSW Sydney. What happens when evolved minds, old-fashioned culture and new technologies collide? Books "Artificial Intimacy" and "Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll".
Director of the Cooperative Futures Institute and Psychology Professor at Arizona State University. I study cooperation across systems, from cells to societies. Ranked in top 1% of scientists, according to Elsevier's standardized citation database.
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