The topic of assimilation had come up a few times over the last week. Or perhaps it only came up once, but because I was daydreaming about today’s post, I applied it to all scenarios in my mind’s eye. Which may in fact not be in my eye at all. You need to be a …
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Uncanny Valley – Borrowing concepts from AI to use in this uncertain world.
You are allowed bleak days. But not for long. Chin up, and move forward.
Picture the scene, our space faring descendants have just crash landed on a hostile earth. And the earth has good reason to be hostile, because we are not very kind to it right now, are we? Anyway, in the movie “After Earth”, Cypher (played by Will Smith), instructs his son, Kitai (played by his son), …
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It’s 1.37am, and that old 80’s tune is rolling around in my head like marbles in a glass jar. Paranoimia by Art of Noise, featuring Max Headroom. You remember? That cartoon style blond newsreader? That so clearly rolled his eyes in exasperation “please let me sleep”. Google it, for a blast from the past. Talking …
