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Forgive them artists, they know not what they do.

AI robots’ artwork sells for over $1.6m at Sotheby’s sale A humanoid robot has become the first to have its artwork sold by a major auction house, with the portrait going for more than $A1.6 million at Sotheby’s.

Our hearts bleed

AI expert wonders if the value of AI will justify the massive expenditure. Interesting 20 minute listen.

Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit? The promise of generative AI technology to transform companies, industries, and societies is leading tech giants and beyond to spend an estimated ~$1tn on capex in coming years, including significant investments in data centers, chips, other AI infrastructure, and the power grid. But this spending h...

Aussie legend Nick cave laments about AI music

Nick Cave on the ‘unbelievably disturbing’ impact of AI in music Nick Cave on AI: “Its intent is to completely sidestep the sort of inconvenience of the artistic struggle, going straight to the commodity, which reflects on us, what we are, as human beings, which is just things that consume stuff.”

Extremely uncool. His company told AI how to design like him, then fired him.

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