K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media
<p>How does media actually work in 2024, which is to say in a time of omnipresent AI? And what kind of subject is this era of media producing? On this ep, we speak with K Allado-McDowell—the author, with GPT-3, of <em>Pharmako-AI</em>, <em>Amor Cringe</em>, and <em>Air Age Blueprint</em>, and founder of the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI—about how media is evolving. Specifically, we ask about rise of “neural media,” which K has theorized as developing out of network media in the mid-2010s amid increasing human-AI interaction. Hearing K describe neural media’s mechanics, it seems inevitable that our ideas of individuality and identity formation, even what it means to communicate as a human (among other living beings) are about to be majorly recalibrated.</p>
Host: Caroline Busta, Lil Internet
Guest: K Allado-McDowell
Part of: New Models Podcast