wrote a piece for ⚡ reboot ⚡ and Kernel Magazine about StumbleUpon, randomness, the historical roots of The Algorithm™️, and the rose-colored glasses through which we look at the technological past!

joinreboot.org/p/the-serendip…

It was such an honor to play a small part in this huge project! Excited to see what grows out of it.

We made a magazine! Kernel Magazine Issue 4 — our exploration of how luck and chance shape our relationship with technology — is out now!

the realest ai-induced existential risk .. how we treat each other and ourselves

(new fiction in ⚡ reboot ⚡ from Lila Shroff)

new speculative fiction in the ⚡ reboot ⚡ newsletter this week

a wonderful little email epistolary from Lila Shroff on AI, friendship, and productivity tools — written in partnership with Claude and Pi (!)

The future doesn’t just arrive; it has to be built. What does that mean for writing about technology?

The third issue of Kernel Magazine is out today, and you can get your copy now at shop.kernelmag.io ⚡

love this essay and proposal—particularly the idea that artisan datasets themselves (with all their “ quirks,” “oddities,” and “whimsical randomness”) might be considered works of art in their own right!

On the future of cinema, creating with AI, and stories as intellectual DNA...check out our latest interview with Jeff Desom !

embeddings.substack.com/p/on-the-futur…

Interested in the intersection of creative work and generative AI, Stanford undergrads Lila Shroff and Isabelle Levent joined forces. Among their outputs include this exciting interview series: embeddings.substack.com

Excited to cover all things arts, media, and policy...

Send me your pitches on:
- artists exploring technology in interesting + provocative ways
- media creation tools you wish existed
- fiction that changes how you think about technology
- anything else you want!

“GPT-3 produced language that moved me and came across to me as creative. For me, that being true is harder to deal with than if I felt that everything that is produced by AI is garbage.”

Check out Isabelle Levent & I's latest interview w/ Vauhini Vara 👇embeddings.substack.com/p/vauhini

“Is the model intelligent in suggesting something creative or is this just a glitch people are deriving value from?” Lila Shroff and I chat with Mina Lee about the importance of subjective human evaluation & push up against big Qs on the long term effects of LMs. Link below 👇