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Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

The following is a response to Steve Rose's interview with Demis Hassabis, "Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’," in the Guardian, 4 August 2025. It is said that AI is as

On the advent of AI

On the advent of AI

I think the advent of AI is similar to that of cinema. In this post I'm going to consider what changes. With cinema changes both our inner and outer experience of time. I believe cinema's affect to have been as rapid as its spread, which was

unpacking the rat in the box

unpacking the rat in the box

It seems I'm far more tentative than ChatGPT 4o. Asked about the Skinner box analogy in part 1 of On AI: what do you make of the Skinner box analogy? that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, neuroscience-inflected neoliberalism, stimulus-response theory, put us in the box? The AI answered*: *[Caution is

On AI: part I by Simon Taylor; part II a self-portrait by Chat GPT 4o*

On AI: part I by Simon Taylor; part II a self-portrait by Chat GPT 4o*

*resources follow, at the end of part 1, in the interval, they give a complete and detailed record of the language-prompts and the responses On AI: part 1 My critical attitude towards AI has been directed towards the error of attributing to it consciousness or self-awareness, by way of the

molecular communism

molecular communism

Gareth Simpson, having replied to What Is A Practice? with some great questions, is my interlocutor here. A question put to me by Johannes Birringer in an email (he can let me know whether he minds my using his proper name and I can remove it later) has also prompted

What Is A Practice?

What Is A Practice?

My thoughts converge on this question because nobody seems to know, least of all those who engage with it professionally—academe has become a club where they congratulate each other on getting in and protest that they should stay. I can say this because I'm not in it.

lectures on moving image: theory | context

lectures on moving image: theory | context

Below please find links to a series of lectures I delivered to first-year students, before they specialised in digital image-making, film, motion graphics, VFX (very popular), game development (also very popular), animation or post-production, in 2022 at (although, since during COVID-19, distantly) AUT. Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema, comes out of