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'I encountered the terror of never finding anything': The hollowness of AI art proves machines can never emulate genuine human intelligence

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Mike Pepi's new book " Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia" is out now.

He assesses whether AI can ever emulate the human feelings that move us, through the prism of art.

Pepi: "The longer I stuck around, the more emptiness I encountered" in the work of Unsupervised .

In the atrium, Unsupervised presents thousands of images, but I can ask nothing of them.

The relationships drawn are mathematical, and the moments of recognition are accidental.

The appeal of the work relies on the machine’s encroachments on the brain.

The institution of art is the promise that some, indeed many, of those will be answered.

In Against Platforms, technologist and creator Mike Pepi lays out an explanation of what went wrong — and a manifesto for putting it right.

The key is that we have been taught that digital technologies are neutral tools, transparent, easily understood, and here to serve us.

The reality, Pepi says, is that they are laden with assumptions and collateral consequences.

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