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A weekend jaunt with my daughters to the new art exhibit at the de Young.

As one might expect from the long history of AI marketing, we were left hoping for more.

“In today’s AI-driven world, increasingly organized and shaped by algorithms that track, collect, and evaluate our data, the question of what it means to be human has shifted. Uncanny Valley is the first major exhibition to unpack this question through a lens of contemporary art and propose new ways of thinking about intelligence, nature, and artifice.”

One response to “Keeping it real in the “Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI””

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    jurvetson

    My daughter and some molds of termite mounds…harvesting molds inside.

    I happen to find them inspiring for the study of AI emergence. From an earlier post I made on them here: "As with the other social insects, the termite behavior at the colony level is just fascinating. They farm a fungus underground, and their crop needs a constant temperature of 87 degrees. While outside temperatures can fluctuate between 35 degrees during the night and 104 degrees during the day, the thermoregulation of the mound keeps the temperature in a 2-degree band. Hot air rises in the vertical column drawing cooler air in from below, regulated by continual termite tending to air vent opening and closing. Wind also induces airflow rhythms similar to the breaths of a cow. No single termite has enough neurons to build or manage such a complex system."

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