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Who Gives a Damn if Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Who Gives a Damn if Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Using AI to write a story is a shortcut: it imitates, but can’t capture the messy, contradictory way humans think.

Beyond distance. Beyond time. Beyond logic.

Beyond distance. Beyond time. Beyond logic.

Physicists call it quantum entanglement, but now there’s something new. A new kind of entanglement, can make science fiction less… fiction.

Move fast but forget the past?

Move fast but forget the past?

The quantum algorithm gets to the exit, but it doesn’t know how it got there. Speed that burns the past?

The Fourth Law

The Fourth Law: When A.I. robots use or learn from human behavior or human creative output, this must happen symbiotically to benefit both humans and robots.

Eyes in the "Black Mirror"

Eyes in the "Black Mirror"

And that is what the Black Mirror is all about. We do not see our face in that black screen. We see what is left of our consciousness.

Studio 5, The Stars: Ballard’s 1961 short story that anticipated the issue of generative AI

Studio 5, The Stars: Ballard’s 1961 short story that anticipated the issue of generative AI

As early as 1961 (in the short story Studio 5, The Stars), Ballard anticipated one of the most topical and controversial issues of the day: The generation of texts with machines (or AIs).

Doctor Who Weekly - Marvel Comics - n. 1 Oct 17, 1979

Doctor Who: Bigger on the inside than the outside

I don’t think it’s possible to explain it, how do you explain the implications of being a "Time Lord" with two hearts? A time-traveling humanoid who uses a blue police box as a time machine, and a screwdriver to solve the most bizarre and surreal situations?

AI: Let's call them artificial, but not intelligent

AI: Let's call them artificial, but not intelligent

We should not think that everything an AI does is correct just because an AI does it. That is not true. It is not a logical system, but statistical.

The Uncanny Valley in a cyberpunk vision

The Uncanny Valley in a cyberpunk vision

Robots like humans are more attractive, but only up to a certain point: the Uncanny valley.

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness

Root Legacy: Cyberpunk/SciFi novel - English Edition

FATAL ERROR. NO WAY OUT. RUN. Net -a brilliant, unruly hacker- must make a choice: trust the Swarm of voices activates in his head or not.

Artificial Intelligence and Hidden Learning: The Big Risk of “Weights”

Artificial Intelligence and Hidden Learning: Are “Weights” a risk?

If we still do not know exactly how artificial intelligence doses the weights in learning within the hidden layers, can we really predict its evolution?

Cyberpunk-warrior-looking_city By freepik

The 'real' space of the Cyberpunk: A reflection

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.― William Gibson

AI Technology-microchip - Image by rawpixel on Freepik

AIs and neuromorphic processors: Will we be able to handle the 'exponential gap'?

Is it now possible to partly reproduce the potential of the human brain in terms of computation, harnessing its speed and energy efficiency, due to the expanding knowledge of neural networks and neurobiology. But are we really capable of handling all this very rapid progress?

Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights

Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights

There are risks connected to the use of robotics and AI technologies. Can an artificial intelligence create a Memory of itself? Remembrances? Lives?

Cyberpunk: The importance of being Transhuman?

Cyberpunk: The importance of being Transhuman?

Transhumanism in the cyberpunk genre is a fundamental concept that significantly impacts the narrative and themes present in films, video games, and books belonging to this dystopian and futuristic genre.

Gibsonian Cyberpunk and the Equitable Future

Gibsonian Cyberpunk and the Equitable Future

"The future is already here. It's just not quite evenly distributed yet" is a famous phrase by the American writer William Gibson that has been taken up by doctors, scientists and communicators. A simple, immediate, visionary and in some ways disturbing sentence.

From early photographs to generative AI: Manipulated reality and privacy risks?

From early photographs to generative AI: Manipulated reality and privacy risks?

The challenge now is finding out what the rules are?

The Outers: What if even they couldn't stop it?

The Outers: What if even they couldn't stop it? - SciFi novel

In a neurotic world of Cybermen and Snervants Arthur Donovan finds himself embroiled with the charming profiler Himna in a financial-political AI intrigue.

Silkpunk: Mix science fiction and fantasy, drawing inspiration from classical East Asian history

Like steampunk, silkpunk is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, with the dosage of each not always fixed. Steampunk is inspired by the technological aesthetic of brass and chrome of the Victorian era, while silkpunk is inspired by classical antiquity in East Asia.

Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life

Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life

Generative AI products can produce written, graphical, and audio content or software programs with minimal human involvement, but also flat creative output and minimize the importance of human emotions and feelings involved in the creative process.

Ballard: four novels Under the sign of the Apocalypse

Ballard: four novels Under the sign of the Apocalypse

The apocalyptic scenario is one that many of James G. Ballard's characters have to face. Ballard is a science fiction writer and noble father of speculative cyberpunk. His stories unfold under the sign of the Apocalypse, the Revelation of a new dystopic world.

Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic: On human empowerment and control

Johnny Mnemonic is a hymn and a warning to human empowerment and control through dermal chips and the control of biological neural networks.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.