New Models Unlocked | K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media (NM76) 2024
Mar 2, 2025
K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, musician, and the mind behind books like "Pharmako-AI," as well as the founder of Google's Artists + Machine Intelligence. In this discussion, K explores the evolution of media in the age of AI, focusing on the rise of 'neural media' and its impact on individuality. They dive into ethical considerations in animal communication, and the philosophical implications of AI's role in creativity and truth, proposing new frameworks for understanding our relationship with technology. A thought-provoking conversation!
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Network to Neural Media
- Network media is defined by its circulatory nature and memetic content, with users as nodes pushing information.
- Neural media, emerging from this, features high-dimensional space, hallucinated content, and embedded identities.
Neural Media Examples
- Chatbots like ChatGPT exemplify neural media, generating hallucinated text in conversation.
- AI-generated images, evolving from blurry layers to focused forms, also demonstrate this hallucinatory process.
Collectivity in Neural Media
- Neural media's impact on collectivity remains uncertain.
- Will it individualize or create broader collectives?
