{"id":3504,"date":"2023-05-08T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T22:46:40","slug":"ai-as-system-and-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/ai-as-system-and-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"AI as Symptom and Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-5.53.55-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3505\" src=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-5.53.55-PM-1024x618.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-5.53.55-PM-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-5.53.55-PM-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-5.53.55-PM-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-5.53.55-PM.png 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IFF director Margaret Wertheim has started a Substack called <a href=\"https:\/\/margaretwertheim.substack.com\"><em>Science Goddess<\/em><\/a>. Its a place to rave about science. &#8220;Things I love about science, things I hate; passions, peeves, and surreal snippets,&#8221; Wertheim writes. The first post addresses the under-looked question: <a href=\"https:\/\/margaretwertheim.substack.com\/p\/coming-soon\">&#8220;Who is science writing for?&#8221;<\/a> The latest post, May 8, is about <a href=\"https:\/\/margaretwertheim.substack.com\/p\/ai-as-symptom-and-dream\">AI dreams and nightmares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wertheim also has an essay in the May 2023, issue of the <em>Brooklyn Rail,<\/em> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2023\/05\/editorsmessage\/A-Word-or-Two-on-Art-and-Technology?utm_source=Brooklyn+Rail+List+One%3A+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=b45b75f02c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_06_02_17_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_a44895fefe-b45b75f02c-391090637&amp;mc_cid=b45b75f02c&amp;mc_eid=2f4f879458\">special section<\/a> about Art and Technology edited by Charlotte Kent. For the section, Kent asked 10 writers to describe a word from discussions surrounding art+tech that they never want to see used again or hope will be used much more. Wertheim chose the term <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2023\/05\/criticspage\/Metaverse\">&#8220;the metaverse&#8221;<\/a> describing why she thinks &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; is a more insightful neologism.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFF director Margaret Wertheim has started a Substack called Science Goddess. Its a place to rave about science. &#8220;Things I love about science, things I hate; passions, peeves, and surreal snippets,&#8221; Wertheim writes. The first post addresses the under-looked question: &#8220;Who is science writing for?&#8221; The latest post, May 8, is about AI dreams and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}