James Bridle is an Athens-based artist and writer whose work traces how digital networks reach into the physical world. They coined the New Aesthetic and wrote New Dark Age and Ways of Being.
Photo: re:publica from Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen I say the mountain is alive, I don't really mean alive in the sense exactly that you or I are alive, in the biological sense that it breathes and excretes and does those other things that we talk about as living. It's alive in a different sense.
James Bridle, James Bridle on Machine Intelligence
I've tried a bunch of AI coding recently and it was initially super exciting. You're like, woo, this is like being on a motorbike. Suddenly I can go really fast and do all this kind of stuff. But I quickly realized I had very little idea what was going on.
James Bridle, James Bridle on Machine Intelligence