Ted Chiang is emphatic: LLMs are nowhere close to being conscious . “We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.”
"If you build it, they will come."
Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has died at age 56 . Friends said she “died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”.
"Joe Heartsill and his sons, Rhett and Lucas, are international eminences in a very obscure corner of professional sports."
Plus, Trump’s threats to arts education and why artist Saif Azzuz should be on your radar.
"When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would be years before they learned the truth about his life of crime."
The genius of her work was in painting things as she saw them through her own eyes. So when she surrounded herself with beauty, her work reflected it
In simple situations with obvious metrics, transparency earns trust. Voting, for example, benefits from audit trails and inspectability. But transparency can also undermine trust. Walking through the typical restaurant kitchen on the way to dinner probably won’t increase the
You can, of course, learn the Greek language as it’s spoken today. You can also learn Greek as it was spoken in antiquity — and as it was, until fairly recently in historical time, taught to students in the modern West. But it’s a fairly different endeavor again to learn Greek
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in
At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while working as a clerk at the Swiss patent office — a new relationship between space and time,
The controversial proposal would measure alumni income to determine whether a program can matriculate students who take out federal loans.
The exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery spotlights remarkable narratives in fabric. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘Masters of the Stitch:
Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to construct a historical NBA roster capable of achieving a perfect undefeated season.” You get to “draft” 5 players from randomly chosen teams & decades, then that team plays a simulated season.
Hyperallergic joined the artists and organizers for the opening week of the new city-wide event, featuring over 30 original commissions.
In March 1976, Talking Heads played a show at The Kitchen in NYC; you can watch the entire show recorded from two angles in this video . The band had formed the year before and was more than a year away from recording and releasing their debut album. It’s a great insight as to
Across galleries, museums, and outdoor sculpture, he connects Indigenous land practices in California, the Hudson Valley, and beyond.
Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show . Here’s the catch: “Each episode Tommy welcomes mystery guests and interviews them without any preparation or knowledge of who will be joining him until they meet in studio.”
The Biennale told Hyperallergic that although withdrawing artists are included on the ballot, “these votes will not be considered.”
Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS. “Haiku is a work of generative music that builds its own sound from nothing each time you open it, and never plays the same way twice — a record that exists only while it is playing.”
This week, we honor a postminimalist sculptor, a Pop Art legend, and the satirist behind “Jerry Gogosian.”
American bombast is, more than anything, a mask, which Hopper understood well.
Now that Andor has been out for a while, showrunner Tony Gilroy is free to speak his mind on what the show was all about. I mean, it was pretty clear to the audience, but now he can say his piece. Andor won a Peabody Award and at the awards ceremony, Gilroy gave the following
'Slow Burn' presents a suite of landscapes, each veiled by curtains. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Wildfires and War Rage in Shawn Huckins’
“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s seventeenth-century painting in which he spells out his own name with caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best of them.”
"How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country."
Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is delivering hydro-generated electricity into NYC : “1,250 megawatts of clean energy directly into New York City’s power grid”. That’s around 20% of the city’s total electric load, now clean.
The New Jersey-based artist's works hang tapestry-like on the wall or unfurl into three-dimensional biomorphic forms. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
Designed to support mid-career Minnesota artists, the fellowship provides each recipient with a $25,000 stipend, professional development, a residency, and more.
Well, this is kinda depressing, courtesy of Jason Zweig’s father : There are three ways to make a living: 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. 3) Tell the truth to those who want
TIL that Muji once sold a car . “The Muji Car 1000 was a debadged and stripped down 2-door version of the Nissan March, with the smallest engine, an automatic, steel wheels, and A/C, available in one color: white.”