Mat Dryhurst
@matdryhurst
Bilder w/ @hollyherndon 🦇🔊 AI @spawning_
On the cover of @ArtReview_ with a beautiful piece of writing on our art by Chris Fite-Wassilak in advance of our @SerpentineUK opening tomorrow
Directionally correct but for the wrong reasons Chatbots are going to be so useful we aren't going to need to be sitting at screens all day The only reason you see slop is because you are in the attention trenches where bots ought to be
We’ve been telling one another to “touch grass” for years now. Maybe the AI-slop era will actually help us log off, Emma Marris argues: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
The second largest city in England is known for two things The Industrial Revolution and four guys who thought it would be different to make scary music, and invented Heavy Metal RIP Ozzy. Gutted.
Bot armies are far more prevalent and influential on culture than we care to admit
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
If you're in Europe and want to work on open and distributed AGI, apply to us at @PrimeIntellect We're hybrid, large part of the team is based in SF and parts are remote and come to SF frequently. We sponsor US o1 visas. jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect
I realized at our Berlin event that there are a lot of talented and ambitious young ppl in Europe. Just (almost) no inspiring company to build the future nor VC that have the balls to give them a chance. No wonder why everybody wants to come to sf|
real razor here. the logic is sound. seems like a reasonable person needs to be pushed either toward 1) llms should not exist at all, since nobody can afford to train them "fairly" 2) a significant redefinition of "fair"
Funny that the Bartz vs Anthropic class action suit inadvertently raises the challenge of licensing AI data If 6m authors are owed 20k per book, damages = 120 billion SOTA LLMs are trained on equivalent of 122m books. That would cost 2.4 trillion - more than Google is worth
Was happy to contribute to this expansive report I do think we have run the worlds most poorly funded AI lab over the past decade, and the arts are often an overlooked opportunity to explore open ended questions with no concrete answers
📢 Excited to share our new publication: "Why technology needs artists"! Explore how artists drive tech advancement. 📖 This new report features 56 leaders from across 24 countries and five continents, read it here: britishcouncil.org/research-insig… @BritishArts
Between GPT psychosis and AI copyright/data targeted individual syndrome can we all agree to chill tf out If we can't find a way to rein in attention games and language inflation I think this gets really ugly
The Art Newspaper: "Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhust—whose breakout installation The Call (2024), at Serpentine, presented a new data trust model for intellectual property ownership based on recordings of choirs made across the UK...note that 'artistic practice offers a relatively…