Memetic Mythology for the End Times Written by Lauren Holt with support from VKRF Part performance art, part ‘book of solace and sorcery’, this text was written as a guide & support for using mythology and stories pre or post-civilizational collapse ⬇️ cser.ac.uk/resources/Meme…

We are incredibly honored that our decentralized autonomous artist, Botto, has been named "Digital Artist of the Year" by the Digital Art Fair along side fellow AI artist !

gm🌿 Here's a really nicely made video by Ensemble about the collaborative piece 'Flowering of Ideas' that was released a few months ago with Botto Great production Mack ◹◺ 🙏

a haunted house, but for women

I am absolutely begging everyone who works in tech to read Foucault.

Wisp officially launches today! A beautifully crafted ornament and AI companion for Apple Vision Pro: apps.apple.com/us/app/wisp-wo… #WispWorld #AI #SpatialComputing

One of the best studios in the space just released an AI pet sim on Vision Pro called Wisp and what impresses me most is the app just ‘lives’ in the user’s space ready to be interacted with whenever like a house plant, subtle yet a total paradigm shift

We had a fun ‘Wisp World’ Let’s Play + Q&A on our Discord live from #AppleVisionPro 🥽 Here’s a snippet with Wisp’s brain writer Jules Pryde Thompson & director Keiichi Matsuda discussing the AI character arc and the new long-term memory feature by Inworld AI 🤖 Watch the full recording

💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵

Remember that generative AI is not predetermined to be developed in a certain way - it’s built by people, who make decisions about how to build it. Training on other people’s work without permission is not something you have to do to get gen AI to work. If you do, it’s because

We're celebrating - our little Wol has been awarded a prestigious Webby! 🏅🦉 Thank you to our amazing partners Niantic and 8th Wall for the opportunity to develop this project, and to the fantastic team that worked to bring the vision to life🌿➡️🌲

Wol's already rehearsing their acceptance speech for The Webby Awards, we are so proud! 🏆

SIFF kicks off Thursday and there is a whole bunch of good stuff showing to see. Thus, I recommended one film to see for every day of the festival for KNKX such as I Saw the TV Glow📺, Good One🌲, Janet Planet🪐, Sing Sing🎭, and more. Read that here👇 knkx.org/arts-culture/2…

Will give a lecture "Automation and Deautomatization" tomorrow (17.40 – 19.00, 14.05) at the University of Lisbon letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/agenda/whic…

Join us for Agential Worldbuilding, a 10-week, online class taught by Viktor Timofeev & Blake Andrews (Blake Andrews?), where participants will study and create their own games using Unity, 3D modeling and environmental storytelling. sfpc.study/sessions/fall-…

🚀 Join us for a live event! 🚀 🎉 Venice Immersive Preview 🎉 📅 Aug 13, 1-2 PM PT 📍 Agog House in VRChat Hear from curators Liz Rosenthal & Michel Reilhac, moderated by Loren Hammonds. 🔗 agog.org/event/venice-i… #VRChat #ImmersiveMedia #VeniceImmersive

WORLD CHAMPIONS ON UNIVERSE 🥇🇺🇸 The 2025 World Games Gold Medal for Flying Disc goes to Team USA after defeating Canada 13-12 in the championship! It’s the SIXTH gold medal for Team USA! #RoadToChengdu #twg2025 #WeAreTheWorldGames #PullForUS #USAUltimate