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An Ecology of Synthetic Beings

Hosted by Ari Kalinowski
 
 
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This is the third meeting of the religion, political ideology and technology discussion group.

For this meeting, we will be discussing the topic of """""""synthetic beings""""""" on the micro level and on the macro level (on the interpersonal level and on the grand ecological level).

Our first reading is a discussion of Replika from our very own Fartein Nilsen:

https://immortality.w.uib.no/2023/06/17/the-machine-that-loved-me-some-social-implications-of-ai-companions-and-virtual-humans/

and also we should revisit: https://www.gitagpt.in/

Our second set of readings (on ai and ecology are):

https://www.noemamag.com/ai-is-life/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317171027.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novacene

Bonus Reading (action models & the stack):

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-vision-and-language-into-action

https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/ian_bogost_reviews_the_stack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/524220/NieRAutomata/