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In collaboration with
Shuang Frost
Vincent Garton
Bogna Konior
Gabriele de Seta
Xin Wang
Dino Zhang
In this website, Zheng Mahler have used the AI newsreader Qiu Hao released by the Chinese Xinhua State News Agency in 2019 as a mouthpiece to voice contemporary, less monolithic, more subversive, subcultural responses to AI and technology in China. Collecting excerpts of essays by leading scholars of technology and artificial intelligence in the East, ‘The Master Algorithm: Redux’ is a kind of digitally embodied, scholarly volume spoken through the AI newsreader.
WEBSITE INSTRUCTIONS
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-Audio is best experienced in headphones
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00. A PRELUDE TO SHITFUTURISM
Dino Zhang
01. THE AESTHETICS AND LOGIC OF WANGHONG
Dino Zhang
Anchor 1
02. MACHINE ENVY
Xin Wang
Anchor 2
03. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A (VIRTUAL) BAT?
Zheng Mahler
Anchor 3
04. ‘TRANSLATING CHINESE AI: FROM “HUMAN-MADE INTELLIGENCE” TO “BLACK TECH”
Shuang Frost
Anchor 4
05. AUTOMATICITY AND THE MYSTERY OF STATE
Vincent Garton
Anchor 5
Anchor 6
06. APAIC REPORT ON THE HOLOCODE CRISIS
Gabriele de Seta
Anchor 7
07. BUBALUS BUBALIS
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Zheng Mahler
Anchor 8
08. THE DARK FOREST THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE
Bogna Konior
Anchor 9
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