Beyond Algorithms

Key Takeaways From glitches to ghosts: Why we mythologize AI anomalies: Apparent malfunctions in AI are rarely just technical mishaps. Instead, they reveal a timeless human urge to explain the inexplicable, casting machines as haunted or even alive. This mirrors…

Key Takeaways As emerging technologies usher us closer to the possibility of digitizing the mind, the quest for digital immortality forces us to radically reconsider our most essential cultural, philosophical, and spiritual foundations. When machines begin to emulate the intricate…

Key Takeaways In an age when the boundaries between fact and fiction blur, and digital algorithms quietly reshape what billions of people encounter online, artificial intelligence is not simply a tool for crunching data—it is an architect of reality. A…

Key Takeaways Machine gaze transforms the observer’s power: With artificial intelligence operating as both audience and analyst, the act of observing shifts from a uniquely human privilege to a computational capability. Algorithms now parse our every move and fundamentally alter…

Key Takeaways The ascent of algorithmic systems has quietly woven the threads of ancient spiritual concepts into the digital fabric of our modern lives. This article peels back the layers of algorithmic karma, exploring how digital consequences and feedback ethics…

Key Takeaways What compels an artificial mind to act? As artificial intelligence moves beyond the rigid boundaries of mathematical logic to reflect echoes of our own appetites and intentions, the language of “desire” and “libido” is transformed from mere poetic…

Key Takeaways AI art ignites the debate over the ‘artificial sublime.’ Generative art challenges Kant’s notion that the sublime is beyond mechanical creation, suggesting machines may unlock aesthetic heights once thought unreachable by algorithms. Sublime machines prompt a radical rethink…

Key Takeaways Redefining immortality: AI transforms memory into afterlife. Advances in AI technology are shifting the idea of immortality from traditional memorials to dynamic digital legacies. AI-powered systems can preserve human consciousness and memory in new forms, challenging our long-held…

Key Takeaways Simulating empathy is not experiencing empathy. Emotional AI can flawlessly imitate expressions of understanding and care, yet it fundamentally lacks the subjective consciousness that is innate to true empathy among sentient beings. The emotional Turing Test reveals existential…

Key Takeaways In a world where digital narratives arise from lines of code as much as from human imagination, the arrival of AI oracles is reshaping how stories are authored, interpreted, and believed. The interplay of code and myth unsettles…

Key Takeaways Hybrid selves disrupt the myth of a singular, stable identity. The cyborg self erases the separation between organic and synthetic, challenging the notion that identity is purely bodily, fixed, or individually bounded. Synthetic memory reshapes our understanding of…

Key Takeaways In a world captivated by the possibility of uploading consciousness and the prospect of machines awakening with humanlike intelligence, the allure of algorithmic folklore deeply shapes how we imagine artificial intelligence. By extension, it also shapes how we…

Key Takeaways As artificial intelligence evolves past single-sense perception, the fusion of sight, sound, and language in multimodal AI systems provokes deeply philosophical questions. Could machines, by integrating such diverse data, begin to show emergent properties that press us to…

Key Takeaways Prophecy goes digital as AI reshapes ancient foresight. Predictive systems now harness immense datasets and advanced deep learning to forecast social, economic, and even cultural trends, echoing humanity’s enduring fascination with peering into the future. AI’s oracles invite…

Key Takeaways Synthetic memory rewrites the boundaries of privacy. AI-driven data storage creates virtual archives that vastly outstrip the capabilities of biological memory, pushing society to confront the long-term visibility of our personal histories within expansive digital ecosystems. Digital forgetting…