Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.

A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

“…backers did eventually receive their headsets…”?

Mid century Autumn logos. Designers listed in comments.
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Reading this, I'm just sort of blown away by the cleverness and capacity for explaining things *way above* my understanding in a way that feels worthy of a read.

WWDC 25 Deep Dive: Immersive Video & OpenImmersive 1.4 Apple announced many updates to Immersive Video. This is an in-depth review of those changes, and some OpenImmersive updates.

I read this article yesterday and it really emphasized for me just how little I know about immersive media 😅 It's a problem space I'm cautiously optimistic to explore.
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Alive. Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI & the Design of Radical Life Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology, and art, this survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it mea…

Madeline Schwartzman's book aims to expand our views of what it means to be alive in a world where hybrid beings are being manufactured, engineered or bred we-make-money-not-art.com/alive-synthe... @ThamesHudsonUSA

Classic text games are the new frontier for AI benchmarking | IBM Could classic text games be the key to AI benchmarking? AI researchers have been using TextQuests and games like Zork to stress-test LLM reasoning capabilities. Learn more.

Some of my thoughts on LLMs playing Text Adventure Games like Zork are featured in this IBM blog post www.ibm.com/think/news/t...

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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

The cells of your body follow simple rules and play off one another to form a complete organism. The researcher Alexander Mordvintsev has developed “neural cellular automata,” building blocks that can self-assemble into any form. @georgemusser.com reports: www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

Quantum computing textbook

Also just finished this “…introductory textbook with only minimal pre-requisites…”

“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”

Quantum FFTs, Sanborn maps, and VR eye tracking today? I’m not even…

RAI Institute is pushing the boundaries of robotics with their Ultra Mobile Vehicle (UMV) project. Instead of choosing between wheels or legs, UMV blends the speed and efficiency of wheeled robots with the agility and athleticism of legged ones.

Wist lets you capture events with an iPhone and revisit them as stabilized volumetric memories on Apple Vision Pro or Quest, just like in Minority Report.

Details here: www.uploadvr.com/wist-deliver...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Hilla Rebay Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Little Accents by Vasily Kandinsky, 1940 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137937

Fortnite Makes Money From Popular Dances. Do Their Choreographers?

Fortnite Makes Money From Popular Dances. Do Their Choreographers? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/a...

Rented Robots Get the Worst Jobs and Help Factories Keep the Humans

Rented Robots Get the Worst Jobs and Help Factories Keep the Humans www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/b...

Ha. The fact that this works is just great.

𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿-𝟯𝗗: 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝟯𝗗 𝗜𝗻𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀
Haitang Feng, Jie Liu, Jie Tang ... Guangcong Wang
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Researchers made a robot that can make deliveries to VR. They call it Skynet.

Details here: www.uploadvr.com/invisible-mo...

They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.

They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...

How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO Podcast Episode · Decoder with Nilay Patel · 08/18/2025 · 54m

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Opinion | Finding Beauty in a Bowl of Soup It tethers us to the world, brings us together, asks our bodies to remember a time beyond ourselves.

Finding Beauty in a Bowl of Soup www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

2x2 grid of stylized playdates; screen shows a tessellated rock below abstract shapes

Grid and variation negotiations

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund and partial gift of the artist and Pi Artworks, 2015

Building by Susan Hefuna, 2009 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137847

It will be really cool to see what people can create when they can create some art of their own world and jump inside it to explore like this