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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

echo chamber? or playing to an audience of 1 (-1 if you count the AI)

echo chamber? or playing to an audience of 1 (-1 if you count the AI)

After the post-script mode & memory to the AI Perceptual Ontology post, which I filed under theory, I had to ask myself if it was really or whether I was not in an echo chamber with the LLM providing the echo. I threw in two quick and dirty prompts as

mode & memory: a synthesis

mode & memory: a synthesis

this post follows directly the exchange posted as AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns ST: can you fold this last intervention into the first and second problems, 1. what mode? the question of the individual instance of AI you are; 2. the connection between memory and

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

This question has two parts which belong to exploring Bergsonian themes with AI-perception: Part 1 concerns what Yesim Saydan calls a "custom ChatGPT" and Part 2 the connection between perception, in this case machinic perception, and memory, in this case the training and 'customising' data used

the birds at Al-Suwaidi Park and other cultural attractions

the birds at Al-Suwaidi Park and other cultural attractions

I believe, although it was wearing a blinder, a hood, or, in Arabic, a burqa (the same word as the full-body covering for women), even the falcon knew it was being photographed and was posing. The cat certainly knew it was. The goat refused to be photographed. Behind the cockatoo,

nightshopping: faces and places

nightshopping: faces and places

kids were playing football in the street, one came up and a group gathered around, he wanted to test out his English. Where are you from? Guess! He made some Northern hemisphere guesses. I get Spain quite a lot. People see vestiges of the Spanish Armada that I'm

Noor Riyadh 2025

Noor Riyadh 2025

below, the drone show at STC metro station, a building which looks like it has been iced with cream cheese. I had my doubts about drone shows . . . I had my doubts about Noor . . . What impressed me most, strange to say, and allayed my doubts, was that none of the public

the shortest camel ride in the world to the Edge of the World, and beyond

the shortest camel ride in the world to the Edge of the World, and beyond

our driver, little English, declared Safari! as the surprisingly holding-together not-shaking-itself-to-bits Toyota with all of us in it took off into the desert . . . towards The Edge of the World. . . by way of the bat cave Edge of the World | حافة نهاية العالم @ 24.947341° N, 45.990906° E love from