A web comic for our present moment: “Goodnight, phone.”
A web comic for our present moment: “Goodnight, phone.”
↩︎ The Verge
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Steely Dan fans are freaking out over “the most important cassette on the planet.”
Each version is pored over. There is cover after cover. People train AI models to improve the quality of shoddy vocals.The desire to hear the song in high quality is so immense it is often described as painful.
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The first journalist to write about “The Dark Side of the Rainbow” finds the mashup less magical now.
The first journalist to write about “The Dark Side of the Rainbow” finds the mashup less magical now.
↩︎ The New York Times Magazine
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A custodian at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute switches off a super-cold freezer in a lab and destroys decades of research.
A custodian at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute switches off a super-cold freezer in a lab and destroys decades of research.
↩︎ The Times Union
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On humanity’s longstanding preoccupation of erasing its own history, and how, in the digital era, that intent remains strong.
Socrates warned in Plato’s “Phaedrus” that the invention of writing destroyed memory… More recently, the typewriter enabled the production of far more paperwork, raising profound anxieties about the nu…
Training AI models is a massive undertaking that requires a vast number of hands-on humans—many of whom are paid pennies an hour.
Training AI models is a massive undertaking that requires a vast number of hands-on humans—many of whom are paid pennies an hour.
↩︎ The Verge
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