Silicon Landlords: On the Narrowing of AI's Horizon
The one thing science fiction couldn’t imagine is the world we have now: the near-complete control of Artificial Intelligence by a few corporations whose only goal is profit.
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The one thing science fiction couldn’t imagine is the world we have now: the near-complete control of Artificial Intelligence by a few corporations whose only goal is profit.
Long before Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions, university professor Lejaren Hiller premiered a concert recital composed by a computer and became an overnight celebrity
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been trying to carve a name for itself in the music business as a collaborator, composer, artist and lyricist since 1951.
Date Time SILLIAC: machine that brought Australia into computer age A horse-racing benefactor with an interest in science made one of Australia’s first, and then most powerful, computers possible. It’s a story that’s easy to love. It was the early 1950s and the University wanted to build one the first and most powerful computers in the world, SILLIAC. But funds were short and it was only built because the race horse of a prominent donor had just won the Melbourne Cup. No Melbourne Cup win, no SILLIAC. A donor with a passion for science The truth is a little less cinematic....