Artificial intelligence
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On the New AI jobscape, Digital Luddites, and the Impossibility of ‘Written by a Human’
The Future of Digital Labour in the Age of Digital Mass Production Chairs. I’d like to start talking about chairs. Curvy, sleek-looking, good old chairs. Comfy, sturdy, full of details, those that existed before IKEA. Look at now chairs. Boring,… Continue reading
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Waking up
…we were finally on our way home, leaving the tall Pyrenean mountain chain behind, as the city of Zaragoza came into view after a long stretch of dry nothingness. We were driving by the military complex Capitan Mayoral in the… Continue reading
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TikTokfication II: How Social Media is Leading us Into an Idiocracy
What are we losing as a result of millions of people having their attention impaired to perform cognitively-demanding tasks? In post Ⅰ — which you should totally read btw — I argued that training advanced algorithms with self-learning capabilities to… Continue reading
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Melon Usk and the Reinvention of the Wheel
The following is an entirely fictional story. Any resemblance with reality is mere coincidence. There was a time when bicycles, cars, motorcycles, and other inventions of the devil had not yet been invented. Way before the time of Melon Usk,… Continue reading
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TikTokfication I: an AI-driven Idiocracy (when AI gets better at distraction)
How long until we consider social media an existential thread? An existential risk is a term coined by futurologist and philosopher Nick Bostrom, defined as an adverse outcome which would annihilate life on Earth permanently, or drastically curtail its potential.… Continue reading
Andrés Gúrpide Lasheras 