The word last year was that this wonderful, annual convocation of anthropologists, astronomers, artists, science fiction writers, visionaries and the occasionally wacky was on indefinite hiatus. But--they've met again at NASA-Ames, and the world is, I think, much better for it.
http://www.contact-conference.com/
Occasional posts on anthropologically interesting science fiction, anthropological futures and my own future as an anthropologist.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
AI Translation and "The Language of Liars" by S.L. Huang
R.L. Huang's " The Language of Liars " is an anthropological parable for our times. But in ways that exceed anthropolo...
-
Stuck in the Turing Matrix: Inauthenticity, Deception and the Social Life of AI Samuel Gerald Collins ...
-
As I've done over the past 3 years, I ran Twitter searches for the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting this evening. U...
-
One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide...
No comments:
Post a Comment