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"Demis Hassabis says our brains are likely to be approximate Turing machines."Dear Lord. This Alan Turing worship never ends. It's a cult. 🤦‍♂️I research the visual system of the brain. I've come to understand that the most important principle of intelligence is the precise… https://t.co/isLnLqjFkw— AGIHound (@TrueAIHound) May 5, 2026

The education of a computer

Artificial Intelligence in Music Classrooms: PK-12 Educators’ Practices, Concerns, and Confidence

Abstract In this descriptive survey study, we explore PK-12 music educators’ perceptions of AI, their current practices, confidence, concerns, and the types of support they need to utilize AI within their music programs. Fifty-four music educators from elementary, middle, and high school settings in Indiana completed an online survey. Quantitative survey responses such as demographic […]

Immutable Skills

How knowledge redevelops at higher levels of abstraction, and why its still dependent on properties of the printing press

On thinking machines

While Chiron Codex is about the application of LLMs and AI-augmented tools, we also need to understand their meaning to us, each other, and society. I have three topics: intelligence,...

Jeff Mills Drifts Into the Cosmos

AI is the latest of a long succession of tools trying to make things easier for us, and it’s always been there, and it’s always affected the music. Maybe we didn’t fear as much, but musicians just have to be more creative and to be more elusive.

Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy

An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think.Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has b

Science-based Shredding

Why don’t people tout RCTs of piano lessons?

Care at the Edge of Automation – Topos Institute

Technologies don’t just solve problems, they change us. We invent technologies, and they invent us in turn, shaping our lives and worlds. This is the phenomenon that Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, in Understanding Computers and Cognition (1986), called “ontological design.” It matters now more than ever—along with a second lesson they saw clearly. Technological research is always guided (and sometimes misguided) by deep ontological assumptions about, e.g., the nature of cognition, agency, and communication. If we are to create technologies that truly serve human flourishing and care, we must bring these hidden assumptions into the open and question them at their roots.

What matters in the age of AI is taste

the case for why a curated personal knowledge base has never mattered more

Why We’re Taking a Human‑First Stand on AI‑Generated Music — Qobuz Community

Artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry at an unprecedented pace. Faced with the explosion of AI-generated content and the legitimate questions it raises, Qobuz has chosen transparency. This charter establishes our framework: how we use AI, where we draw our lines, and what commi

Humanism and artificial intelligence

If humanism was born with the alphabet in a literate environment and was reborn with the printing press, what becomes of it when digital technology becomes the dominant symbolic technology?

The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music

Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.