^Tagseductive optics

Male mannequin covered with slices of a mirror on a black background

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post

Author
Nathan Jacobson
Date
March 7, 2023

Categorized
Virtual Reality

Tagged
computer animation, digital art, gaming (and AI characters), personification, programming, seductive optics}

Moving Pixels

_{Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence, Part II.} _{Nathan Jacobson

March 7, 2023

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Virtual Reality}

Whatever emotions we bring to the movie or to the game ourselves, our digital allies and enemies breathe no breaths, make no sacrifices, feel no lonely deaths. Living, dying, or respawning, they are as dead as a dead pixel. Read More ›

mannequin body parts piled up in a carton box outdoor

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post

Author
Nathan Jacobson
Date
March 6, 2023

Categorized
Virtual Reality

Tagged
appearances, Digital Assistants, hyperrealism, Portraiture, seductive optics, skeuomorphism, Sophia the Robot, Voice recognition software}

Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence

_{Appearance and reality in art and artificial intelligence} _{Nathan Jacobson

March 6, 2023

6

Virtual Reality}

Things are not always as they seem. Artificial intelligence is like that. Art may be visually indistinguishable from a man or woman, passing the art equivalent of a Turing Test, we know they're not in the least the same kind of thing as what they portray. Paint does not suffer. Stone does not breathe. Read More ›

Human intelligence vs artificial intelligence. Face to face. Duel of views. Animated illustration on a school blackboard.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
July 22, 2021

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Bernard Widrow, Bill Dembski, Creativity, David Gelernter, Deep Blue, Gary Kasparov, Greg Hammerly, Hit Refresh, Human exceptionalism, Robert J. Marks, Roman Yampolskiy, Satya Nadella, seductive optics, seductive semantics, Walter Bradley Center}

Robert J. Marks: There’s One Thing Only Humans Can Do

_{Robert J. Marks

July 22, 2021

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This week, we listen to Robert J. Marks speaking at the launch of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Dallas, Texas. Robert J. Marks is the Director of the Bradley Center and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University. In a panel discussion at the 2019 launch of the Bradley Center, Dr. Marks Read More ›