In the last two years, GenAI apps, like image and voice generators and chatbots, have become widespread. While it feels like a few historical eras have come and gone in this time, it also feels like we are somehow stuck in this strange, chaotic moment at the beginning of the age of AI.
Every week, everywhere, headlines promise wonder or warn of danger, and commentators insist that we believe something about this new tech — although often whatever it is we are now asked to believe contradicts whatever was said the week before.
From today, I’ll be contributing a regular column to The Monthly to try to find what’s true and enduring in this time of change, and to try — at least a little — to get unstuck. Ex Machina won’t be about AI so much as about us and AI. How is it changing us? What do we need to know? What should we believe?
Click here for the first instalment of Ex Machina.
The plan is to run another instalment of Ex Machina next week, and then one every two weeks after that.
How’s your AI experience going? Let me know if you have any burning questions. I might get a chance to answer them in the column.
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