DIFFUSION: A NEW VENTURE FOR ANTIKYTHERA
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Antikythera Diffusion seeds and seeks ventures that scale computogenesis by channeling capital, ideas and talent.
"Artificial": Life, Intelligence, Planet
Antikythera x De-Silo Symposium in Tokyo
Antikythera books, including its series with MIT Press, take a constructive and propositional approach to critical philosophies, integrating fiction and nonfiction, history and futures, and works by multiple authors. Core subject areas include philosophy, computer science and science-fiction, architecture, urbanism, economics, and science studies.
Authors investigate the implications for and trajectories of planetary scale computation, including its socio-technical genealogies (scientific, infrastructural, governance), philosophical transitions (epistemological and ontological effects), and geopolitical dynamics (legal, social, economic, policy scenarios, etc).
Antikythera’s books often feature digitally rich content and sister articles in the Antikythera: Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation, a digital peer-reviewed journal also published with MIT Press.
Antikythera’s books often feature digitally rich content and sister articles in the Antikythera Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation, a digital peer-reviewed journal also published with MIT Press.
What is Intelligence?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future—the “predictive brain” hypothesis. In What Is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this idea—that prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itself—and explores the wide-ranging implications.
What is Intelligence?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future—the “predictive brain” hypothesis. In What Is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this idea—that prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itself—and explores the wide-ranging implications.
What Is Life?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
What life is, and how its essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships. In 1944, quantum mechanics pioneer Erwin Schrödinger wrote a slim but influential volume, What Is Life?, posing the primary question that rendered biology so mysterious to a physicist. How can life and all its attendant complexities come to exist in a random universe, governed by simple laws, whose disorder only increases over time?
What Is Life?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
What life is, and how its essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships. In 1944, quantum mechanics pioneer Erwin Schrödinger wrote a slim but influential volume, What Is Life?, posing the primary question that rendered biology so mysterious to a physicist. How can life and all its attendant complexities come to exist in a random universe, governed by simple laws, whose disorder only increases over time?
Accept All Cookies
Benjamin Bratton
Accept All Cookies by Benjamin Bratton is a collection of key concepts in the philosophy of planetary computation, evolution, and intelligence. This book features pointed provocations on synthetic intelligence, artificial computation, recursive simulations, the geopolitics of stack systems, and the paradoxical relationships between planetary intelligence and transformation. The 100+ concise catalysts for deliberation are drawn from the ideas and research that has emerged from Antikythera’s programs.
Accept All Cookies
Benjamin Bratton
Accept All Cookies by Benjamin Bratton is a collection of key concepts in the philosophy of planetary computation, evolution, and intelligence. This book features pointed provocations on synthetic intelligence, artificial computation, recursive simulations, the geopolitics of stack systems, and the paradoxical relationships between planetary intelligence and transformation. The 100+ concise catalysts for deliberation are drawn from the ideas and research that has emerged from Antikythera’s programs.