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The writings below are non-academic speculative musings around artistic, technical and critical investigations in areas such as machine and biological intelligence, creativity, perception, cognition, consciousness, philosophy, art, music and politics.

My PhD thesis can be found at research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30191/

Selection

Consciousness is evolution’s solution to dealing with big data [link]

High dimensional thinking [link]

Optimising for beauty – the erasure of heterogeneity and an appeal for a Bayesian world view [link]

A semi-mathematical theory of human to human communication [link]

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. A digital god for a digital culture [link]

#Deepdream is blowing my mind [link]

FIGHT! Virtual Reality Binocular Rivalry [link]

On Charlie Hebdo: A house divided against itself cannot stand [link]

Machines that learn, what can they learn? What will they learn? [digicult, spring 2017: link]

Art, politics, speculation

The answer to the fermi paradox, why we are the chosen ones, and the meaning of life [link]

SHM12: Science, Technology, Culture & Tradition [link]

Data Dramatization [link]

What I’ve learnt from Grayson Perry about Digital Art [link]

Frankapology — A story about lies, deceit, betrayal and sex [link]

Accusations, evidence and ethics [link]

Punching Nazis [link]

Honesty in debate, critical thinking: On “Erdogan says ‘freedom and democracy have no value” [link]

“Science is the new religion” is the new religion [link]

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

“Artificial Intelligence” as the name of a research field vs a characteristic of being [link]

Machine Learning failure in algorithms, data, models and context [link]

AMI Residency Part 1 : Exploring (word) space, projecting meaning onto noise, learnt vs human bias [link]

AMI Residency Part 2 : Realtime control of sequence generation with RNN Ensembles [link]

A journey through multiple dimensions and transformations in SPACE [link]

Deep meditations: a meaningful exploration of inner self, a controlled navigation of latent space [link]

Collaborative creativity with Monte­ Carlo Tree Search and Convolutional Neural Networks [link]

Why AlphaGo is fascinating, from a non-technical technical perspective [link]

Selection of resources to learn AI / ML / DL / RL [link]

Review of machine / deep learning in an artistic context [link]

Background info for “#Deepdream is blowing my mind” [link]

Transcripts of artist talks, borrowing from the above

Resonate 2016 (artist talk): A digital god for a digital culture [link]

Retune 2016 (artist talk), Part 1: The Dawn of Deep Learning [link]

Retune 2016 (artist talk), Part 2: Algorithmic Decision Making, Machine Bias, Creativity and Diversity [link]