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AI chose the music it felt was appropriate for this video clip

Specifically, I excerpted this part of the full video and uploaded to TikTok, allowing the TikTok AI to choose the music if that was appropriate. The musical choice reflects the context, including mood, the AI felt reflected the content. What do…

Is it true that the energy consumption of AI is trivial and we will all live in palaces in the sky?

That there is only upside and no cost? That free lunches are routinely eaten, especially by Silicon Valley tech bros, due to the largesse of billionaires who buy them pizza once a week? That all the promises of the tech bros will come true, and we will…

Workers displaced by AI will be left out in the cold

The reason the United States has become an authoritarian nation is because when it undertook a process of globalization, the wealth generated by this transition was not shared with the workers who were displaced by this transition, which resulted in th…