When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?
Why AI Will Need a Ledger Before It Thinks Again Far from being about a James Bond movie, this is pertaining to a very hot topic for those who are following the AI industry development and especially about business models. To get started, let us go back to about 18 months ago, when I first got introduced to Thomas Malone in a virtual classroom at … Continue reading Licensed to Learn
How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5
Once, the internet was just noise. Memes flew, videos spread, screenshots lived forever, and no one asked where anything came from. Authorship was invisible, truth was optional, and we laughed our way through the chaos. But now, the joke’s over. We’re drowning in synthetic content. AI can fabricate anything—faces, voices, evidence, entire narratives—with precision that fools even trained eyes. The internet didn’t evolve into a … Continue reading Deepfakes, Data Lies, and the Digital War for Reality
Telepatico 