An AI Jeremiad
“Now did the Lord say that machines ought to take the place of livin’? And what’s a substitute for bread and beans?”—Johnny Cash, The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer Dr. Imani Perry—brilliant author, professor— recently came to Buffalo to discuss her most recent book Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My […]
MLK Day, Renee Good & Migration
“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.1 Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice […]
Deep Fakes, Body Snatchers & Hands
It used to be one of the clear cut ways an expert could identify a “deep fake” was to spot oddities in the hands, like a six-fingered man, for example—”Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father; prepare to die.” The Princess Bride reference notwithstanding, when I learned this, I laughed out loud. […]