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davidgunkel.bsky.social
Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
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Stopped by the @politybooks.bsky.social exhibit booth at #ICA2025. They had "An Introduction to #communication and #AI" but "Communicative #AI" has not yet shipped in North America. It will two days after the conference ends : ( For now all we got is this flyer. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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NOW AVAILABLE Six brand new #AI generated songs about generative #AI from the new (and still in process) "Weird AI" album by The Big Dada Project. AI accordion is the new punk rock. gunkelweb.com/BigDada/

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For whatever reason, @sunomusic.bsky.social does an impressive job with accordion-based compositions. Here's the third number for the Big Dada Project album "Weird AI." This one is a cheery ditty about #AI doomerism. youtube.com/shorts/gTbMB...

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Dropping the second accordion-driven composition for the new Big Dada Project album "Weird AI" This one's a rockin' Klezmer number about everyone's favorite #AIethics problem - #AI bias. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyHq...

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Check out this interesting and insightful thread or reflections from @pabloredux.bsky.social. It was written in response to my essay (though that possessive personal pronoun, as Paul points out, is already a problem) "AI Signals the Death of the Author" that was published by @noemamag.com last week

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21st Century Scholasticism The current discussions about #AI #Consciousness are striking similar to the scholastic debates about the soul. And just as those medieval debates were never fully resolved, I suspect the same will transpire for this thing called "consciousness."

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Big Dada Project is at it again and working on a new album of all accordion driven #AI generated music about #AI. The album is called (for obvious reasons) "Weird AI" and here's the first composition: www.youtube.com/shorts/cej1L...

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A Modest Proposal: "Prompted by me. Generated by #ChatGPT" is just a #remix and reiteration of "Designed in by Apple in California. Assembled in China."

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Death of the Author #LLM #AI did not cause the "death of the author." They merely render the passing and terminal limits of this modern authority figure legible. Get the full story in my newly published essay for @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/ai-signals-t...

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