Recently accepted by #QJE , “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Very proud of CSM MANE YR1 students who collaborated with Scottish Association for Marine Science on FODA, a VR environment for exploring and managing artificial reefs in the North Sea. Prototype showing at Edinburgh Science Festival this weekend! scotsman.com/news/environme…

The Planetary undoing the Global

language models are fundamentally misunderstood.

consumers and commentators merely see highly truncated, lobotomized chatbots. so their mental model of what AI means is 'a drone-like corproate wordsmith' - and this is the lens they use to think/talk about stuff like

Everyone thinks the bottleneck to useful humanoids is AI. It's not.

It's having mechanical hands that can lift a 50 lb suit case, thread a needle, invert a sock and use tools like knives, can openers and screw drivers which require dense tactile sensing.

AI in the wild and out of the lab. Last week to apply for Cognitive Infrastructures studio in London, June-July. Applicants should have right to work in UK. Antikythera.org/apply.

Infinity Mirror · A hstory of simulation technology produced by the interplay between military strategy, video games & climate science .. P H Ï L I P 〄

👉🏻 infinitymirror.antikythera.org

Perhaps AI should be thought of not as “brain in a box” but as a force animating systems “out in the wild.” As part of Antikyhera’s work on Synthetic Intelligence, we will host #CognitiveInfrastructures , an interdisciplinary research studio exploring the new questions in human-ai

Last summer the incredible production teams Central Saint Martins MA Narrative Environments collaborated with Antikythera on hosting a lecture about post-alignment AI to a massive sold out crowd. Voila!

Emergence in LLMs is a mystery. Emergence in physics is linked to phase transitions. We identify a phase transition between semantic and positional learning in a toy model of dot-product attention. Very excited about this one! arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03902…

Not instructions for a game of recursive chess, or an outbreak of Cellular Automata, but weave patterns for textile designs in Design Texts - Fenwick Umpleby [1910]
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This Thursday evening, Planetary Sensing—CSM Digital Innovation Season 3.0—launches with an IRL+URL lecture by Christina Lu and Connor Cook on Whole Earth Codec, a foundation model and planetary observatory that focuses on AI systems ecologies. eventbrite.co.uk/e/799839961857…

Seeking rare, visionary, rigorous, internationalist, systems-obsessed Operations and Media / Production Directors to join Antikythera and Benjamin Bratton in reorienting planetary computation. berggruen.org/careers

Adversaries can deliberately manipulate AI systems to make them malfunction — and there’s no foolproof defense.

Check out NIST’s new guide to the types of attacks developers and users can expect, along with approaches to mitigate them: nist.gov/news-events/ne…

During the filming of 'The Man With the Golden Gun' in 1974, stuntman Loren 'Bumps' Willert executed a corkscrew flip in an AMC Hornet X. The stunt, a groundbreaking endeavor, was meticulously planned and tested with computer simulations for the first time ever, conducted by the

Can’t wait for really really really weird

4/6 - Give the model time to 'think'

Show me anything sexier than this shot of Concorde going Mach 2 to keep up with the shadow of the 1973 solar eclipse for a record breaking 70 minutes

Still thinking about my conversation last week with Dr Erin Lorelie Young about the histories of women in computing and as computers — and how much is still left to automate and integrate in operations and communications systems and organizational logistics.

I’ll be sharing some (mostly) new thinking on Maintenance, the Planet (Earth), and AI as the finale to Spatial Practices’s autumn lecture series on Thursday November 30th. If you are in London, please join! eventbrite.co.uk/e/maintenance-…