A Small Step For Man…

comme the stars perfume

NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. [May 30th, 2020]

Circling the Sun

you’ve heard of: getting emotionally attached to your roomba

now get ready for: genuinely mourning the mars rover like a deceased loved one  

Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

What would you do with more memory? Clearly, play more complex games. One difference between OpenAI’s new text generator (known as GPT-3) and the other neural networks I’ve used in the past is that it now looks at much more text when deciding what to write next. Enough text (2048 “tokens” or approximately 1000 words) that I was able to give it examples of two five-question personality tests, and ask it to predict what the content of the third personality test would be. I have presented them here, in clickable format.

Remember, the AI is based on math, so it must be correct.

Which artificial intelligence are you?

I produced these tests by giving the AI two example quizzes, then the topic of the next one.

Which chapter of the AI Weirdness book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You are you?

Some of my favorite quiz topics are ones the AI generated itself. I would not have thought of these:

Which legendary glowing cat are you?

Which ant-person are you?

Which alien animal are you?

If you’d like to read its quiz entitled “Which metal diplodocus are you?” (neural net’s title, not mine) you can enter your email here, and I’ll send it to you.

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Agnes Giberne 1898

academia is fake you can only trust your fists

“my battery is low and it’s getting dark” is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I can’t articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. It’s acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.

Art Prints by Frank Moth

It is never too early to start talking about outer space labor law