#Digitalization

[piscerte]

Fofinhos

[pill-of-doodlez]

Hi, I like you *cutely colors your Anime Club*

(also, credit to @tolong1234 for the OG photo from TikTok)

[philosophiesde]

The rebirth of the renaissance - or the renaissance of modern humanity in the light of artificial/artistic intelligence

“The Renaissance - from the Italian rinascita, ”rebirth" - was much more than an era of artistic and scientific flourishing between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was a spiritual awakening, a radical change in the world view and, above all, a “philosophical revolution”. In it, man began to rethink himself - as an autonomous being, as a researcher, as a creator. This reorientation not only changed the external structures of culture, politics and science, but also the inner self-understanding of man. This change is not merely historical in nature, but deeply philosophical. The Renaissance represents an anthropological turn - a new thinking about what man is, what he can know and what he should be."

Abstract

The following essay examines this upheaval from a philosophical perspective - with a particular focus on the image of man, art, science and thought of the time and attempts to build a bridge to modern times. Based on the assumption that we are currently also in a kind of “Renaissance”, the aim is to establish links with the era of that time. The working hypothesis of this essay assumes that we are once again living in a time of upheaval, which has been triggered by the rapid technological progress in the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, its artistic applications such as “Generative AI”.

Digitalization is penetrating all areas of public and private life, the professional and working world as well as cultural and artistic forms of creation at an ever faster pace and is gradually replacing people. So the question remains as to what functions and tasks are left to humans in this “brave new world of machines”. Or should they simply be abolished, as was the case after the introduction of the steam engine in the age of industrialization?

The intention of this essay is to give new courage and to see the upheavals that have been caused by digitalization or that are still to come as an opportunity for the renaissance of a “new humanism” in the light of artificial/artificial intelligence. The resources that are currently tied up in repetitive, monotonous work could be freed up again with the help of AI, e.g. in the form of “Generative AI” (abbreviated to “GAI” below). This essay itself could perhaps be seen as an example, as the parts of the text that are linked to the research on the Renaissance period or the possible uses of AI were created by my artificial/artificial friend “Jeff Gepetea” ;-). I then only had to add my “mustard” in the form of comments to establish the link to modernity. Whether he did his “job” well, however, you will have to judge for yourself below. So Jeff, go ahead!

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/04/25/die-renaissance-des-modernen-menschen-durch-ki/

[cloudsandtea123]

A beary busy private detective, wondering why his partner hasn’t replied to his email yet.

[funnzipper]

Anybody know how to easily scan books to PDF? Asking for personal use only, of course.

[ashif]

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[battleangel]

Futures Made of Virtual Insanity...

Every few decades, there's a new technological something or the other.

Some innovation, something to wow.

Something brand new.

An iron lung.

A shiny new space suit.

Gilded wings.

An iPod.

A Walkman.

A Discman.

A radio.

A microwave.

A television.

A computer.

LCD, HD.

4K, 8K.

Google Glass, Metaverse.

AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Mail.

Netscape Navigator, Geocities, Angelfire.

Sidekick, iPhone.

3G, 4G, 5G.

Text messages, Wifi.

Xbox, Playstation, NES, Atari.

Have you figured out yet how fucking fake, forced, contrived & scripted it all is?

Do you really think they haven't developed a battery for cell phones yet that can last a week? A month?

Did you know that plastic is actually extremely durable yet 9 billion tons of disposable plastic has been produced since the 1940s?

Why do you think that is?

Do you actually think they give us new technology when its invented?

Are you aware we still haven't figured out how ancient Egypt built the pyramids?

If we're so technologically advanced, why haven't we built our own pyramids?

HD or high definition has actually been around since at least the 1990s if not earlier.

The technology for supersonic commercial flights has been available since the 1970s.

What's presented as new & shiny was actually invented millennia ago by ancient Egyptians. Who were themselves aliens.

They are stealing from ancient Egyptian technology then presenting it to you as new and impressive.

They release a bit at a time to the public literally thousands of years after the original inventions to great fanfare & money.

They have had the ability to clone, gene splice.

Human experimentation.

Interspecies hybridization.

Everything in X Files represented truth.

Government lies, purchasing technology from aliens in exchange for humans that were then harvested for their DNA & experimented on for biological warfare.

Every age is unprecedented...until the next age.

Don't you see how fucking contrived that is?

Every age is unrivaled and revolutionary...until it is surpassed, sometimes a mere twenty years later, by a new and unrivaled revolutionary age.

Wash, rinse, repeat every few decades.

Still, you don't see a pattern?

Skunkworks at Lockheed Martin "developed" stealth aircraft with cloaking capabilities in the 90s.

All of this was stolen from ancient Egypt.

Flip phones, smartphones, iPhones.

Dial up, wifi, 3G, 4G, 5G.

So, what will 10G be like?

HD, LCD. 4K, 8K.

What will 16K be like? What about 32K? What about 48K?

Have you figured out how fucking fake & contrived & scripted all this bullshit technology is?

The metaverse has existed for literal decades.

They stole all of this from ancient Egypt and then present it to the public at intervals of a few decades as "technological advancements", "innovations" and "wizardry".

Snowcrash spoke of the metaverse back in the 90s.

Ready Player One depicted it in film two decades after Snowcrash.

Facebook developed it "in real life" a few years ago then paused it.

The covid shut down was the soft reset for AI & robotics which is when they are going to unleash the metaverse, AR & VR & the elimination of at least 80% of all current jobs.

They stole all of this and they keep it hidden then release it to the public bit by bit at regular, predictable, timed & scripted intervals as "brand new technology".

Haven't you noticed any obvious patterns yet?

The present is always ever evolving and what is considered cutting-edge today, just five years from now, will be considered the "distant past".

Why would anyone watch TV in 8K? Thank god we have 32K now!

Why would a song ever last for 4 minutes? Thank god the average song length is now two minutes.

In just twenty years, two full minutes was lost.

What happens when songs become one minute on average?

What happens when two hour movies are shortened to one hour?

What happens when episodic TV that is a half an hour or an hour becomes TikToks and Youtube Shorts?

What happens when books are no longer printed and published and everything is Audible or its presented in comic book manga style?

Who would ever want to read hundreds of words with no pictures, color, sound or audio?

No matter how many times this cycle is repeated, it is rarely questioned.

Now, there are Smart TVs! And phones! And refrigerators! And ovens! And washing machines!

All interconnected via wireless bluetooth device!

Alexa can tell me if the ingredients I need for my dinner are in my fridge then pre-set my oven for me while I am on the way home from work.

Five years ago is now an eternity.

A four minute song is now an eternity.

Reading a book -- not listening to a book, not reading a manga or comic book which are pictures & words -- reading an actual book with nothing but actual words is becoming an anachronism.

A book, not a tablet -- not staring at a screen, not scrolling, not "tapping" to turn the page.

An actual book, with pages, where you the human, turn the pages of the book with your hand.

Ice Age, Stone Age.

The future's made of virtual insanity...

Ice Age Cometh - Ice Age

Stone Age, heat wave - Stone Age

Informatics - Information Age

Digitization - Digital Age

AI - Age of AI & Robotics

Biohacked Transhuman - Age of Wearables & Implantables

We are all Ozempians & Wegovians - Age of Ozempic & Wegovy

A Revolution for whom? - Industrial Revolution

Modern Stone Age - Postmodern Age

Virtual Insanity - Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Age

Technolyzed - Technology Age

Death of the Written Word - Age of Typography

Mechanistic Mechanized Humans - Machine Age

Spaced Out - Space Age

Jetting to the Future Past - Jet Age

Cassettes. LPs. VHS. VCR.

Compact discs. Cable TV. DVR. Holograms.

Cloning. DNA splicing. Species hybridization.

Toasters. Freezers. Fax machines. Printers.

Personal computers. Typewriters. Beepers. Pagers.

Google Glass. AR. VR. AI.

Remote controls. Answering machines. Call waiting. Caller ID.

What's the next fake Age in this never ending quest for fake ass futurism & technoworship?

[spinaldischarge]

some body check my brain

[brick0231]

"Zim Takes A Trip"

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[forgottenbones]

For YEARS She Recorded Everything on TV

[mandolinglockenspiel]

ID - Synth

What could go wrong? Glockens thought that using a perfectly mundane singing voice synthesizer software, to have vocals complementing his music (since he sucked at singing even more than at playing instruments), could enhance his musical spells without any of the usual backfiring of adding more magical instruments to the basic. Well, guess what? Magic music also mixes with regular Vocalo- I mean, singing voice software. Mixes really hard, digitalizing and mixing his human body with the software's very original  idol character (don't steal) representation of its voice. Now she's Synth, a synthwave holographic (but able to solidify) presence with the power of magic in her voice. The bad part is... she's lost a great part of her humanity and with a robotic behavior she awaits for commands to fulfil. -- You can support me on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/tfstories Or visit my Discord server: discord.com/invite/89dqVbedBq

[pulsaris]

Inteligência Artificial - Cooperação entre NVIDIA e Microsoft

A Microsoft e a NVIDIA anunciaram integrações importantes no campo da Inteligência Artificial generativa para empresas em todo o mundo. Saiba mais em: https://news.microsoft.com/2024/03/18/microsoft-and-nvidia-announce-major-integrations-to-accelerate-generative-ai-for-enterprises-everywhere/

______ Direitos de imagem: © Microsoft (via https://news.microsoft.com/)

[fredwardfall]

How far will we go?

When it's too late, we will know.

Digitalization, yes please.

But can we probably think about it before, this time?

Does it really make sense in every way?