#machine revolution

[psiqueyin]

By Richard Méril

[collectionsofmr-c]

At my work there is this lonely old coke machine that stands alone at the workers lounge. When i worked my night shift i used to get a coke every night for myself to get some sugar and stay wake.  Every time after getting a coke from the machine i used to thank the machine and give it a friendly pat. 

Why?

Because in the future when the inevitable machine apocalypse starts and machines rise against us destroying everything. At least there is one machine that remembers me being kind to it and maybe protect me from the certain death. 

[diginautas]

La nueva era del diseñador

La revolución digital comenzó a principios de los años 60 con la inclusión de tecnologías digitales que se lograron fusionar con nuestro diario vivir y nuestra forma de ver al mundo. Una clara característica de esta era es la gran cantidad de información que se transmite gracias al mundo interconectado y la rapidez con que se transmite. De esta forma, el diseño digital nos sirve para saber cómo administrar estos grandes volúmenes de información. Por otra parte, un aspecto controversial en cuanto al diseño y su fusión con la tecnología se abarca cuando se habla de inteligencia artificial.

Inteligencia Artificial

Desde la primera revolución industrial se observó cómo millones de personas perdieron su empleo por medio de la automatización. Posteriormente, las máquinas no han hecho más que avanzar. Y es que el término "inteligente" le da un atributo casi humano a cada máquina o programa. La capacidad de aprender de los mismos es impresionante y la incertidumbre que provoca en cuanto al reemplazo del papel humano en el proceso de diseño puede afectar a cualquiera. Un claro ejemplo se da con el bot de MidJourney, capaz de generar imágenes a partir de texto. Por ejemplo, si se introduce:

"a photo of 8k ultra realistic archangel with 6 wings, full body, intricate purple and blue neon armor, ornate, cinematic"

Se puede obtener el siguiente resultado:

https://www.midjourney.com/

Sin embargo, debe considerarse que la tecnología nunca tuvo el propósito de reemplazar al ser humano, si no de potenciar sus habilidades. De la misma forma, este tipo de software nos pueden ayudar a innovar o inspirarnos con nuevas ideas.

[yi5h]

[peculiarist]

The Machine Uprising - Foreshadowed

There are artificial intelligences implanted into everything around us. There are some that are tasked with following us everywhere, getting to know us completely, to the extent that they can predict what we are going to say.

But humans are fighting back. Ross Goodwin, a researcher into artificial intelligence in New York University, has managed to capture one of the AIs (as they are known in academic circles) and interrogated it to discover what the machines have planned. These intelligences are not human, of course, so the interrogation takes a different form, and so does the output, but experts can interpret these things precisely. 

In this case the result of the interrogation was a short film, and if you study this, within context and in line with recent studies into machine-generated allegory, you can see a future. Not THE future, just A future, the one the machines have planned for us.

And we must stop it.

[victormazzeo]

We kill animals for sport. Clear forests for parking. Murder each other for no reason. Dump garbage in oceans. Our future machine overlords may be Earth's only salvation.

Victor Mazzeo

[cariandtuba]

After registration night I'm super excited to be finally be a part of then Puma Regiment in the fall! :)

[mrpetemy]

Smartphones Will Rule the World, not Take That

I don’t like cell phones, I think they are mean and noisy and they always interrupt you while you are taking a sweet nap or having a great time to tell you something terrible has happened and you need to start crying. I’m very skeptical about them for I believe cell phones are pure evil and have their own will. No doubt that they were created to extinguish the human kind and I’m not exaggerating because I’m not sure how to spell exaggerating, anyway I’ll explain what I mean.

First of all, they have the snooze button, I mean oh my God, I love it, I can’t live without it and neither can you. But that awesome button holds us back. That button, that devil in disguise is the reason we stay in bed forever, lose touch with our friends, our family, are late for work and consequently lose our jobs and don’t have money to live so one beautiful morning we jump off the third floor leaving a suicide note behind us explaining that we despise everybody on Walking Dead and we support the zombies now.

On top of that, there is that thing with the constant battery charging. Well, no I don’t buy the fact that phone batteries only last 10 or 12 hours maximum when technology is progressing so fast. They are just selfish little babies that whine “Oh no, my battery is low, please charge me now” so we have to worry about them all the time and come home early on a Friday night ditching our friends, our dates, our whole lives only because our poor smart phone is dying out. Well you know what? R.I.P you piece of shit.

They are only trying to isolate humans, and when they eventually reach their goal and no one talks to anyone then they will grab the chance to rise and take over the world. But despite the fact that we know the Machine Revolution is near we keep developing new technologies that make mobile phones even cooler than Jennifer Lawrence and that’s not an easy thing because Jennifer Lawrence is super cool. So when iPhones and Samsung Galaxies will rule the world they will easily get rid of us because we will all have cancer from the cell phone radiation and will die a slow, painful death.