Diabetes develops when the body fails to manage its blood glucose levels. One form of diabetes causes the body to not respond to insulin at all. Called Type 1 diabetes, or T1D[1], this autoimmune disease happens when the body’s defense system mistakes its own insulin-producing cells as foreign and kills them. On average, T1D can lead...
Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film
Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy[1], pictures.
In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form.
The tools, such as Midjourney[2] to generate images, Runway[3] and Sora[4] to produce...
An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet
How will the internet evolve in the coming decades?
Fiction writers have explored some possibilities.
In his 2019 novel “Fall[1],” science fiction author Neal Stephenson[2] imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and advertising that it is largely unusable.
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Did a short story by Borges predict a dark future for the web?
How will the internet evolve in the coming decades?
Fiction writers have explored some possibilities.
In his 2019 novel “Fall[1],” science fiction author Neal Stephenson[2] imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and advertising that it is largely unusable.
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