Dumb Dive

"... but a miserable pile of secrets." - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Join Arvind and Pranav as they discuss what they like about their favourite video games, what it means for a video game to be good, and why video games as a storytelling medium do something completely different from film and prose.

Join Arvind and Pranav on their latest episode on artificial intelligence, language, and whether teaching computers to speak will lead to the Rise of the Machines.

Sources:

1. On Less than One Shot Learning and Tiny Data - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/16/1010566/ai-machine-learning-with-tiny-data/
2. An Overview of GPT-3 - https://hackernoon.com/first-talos-now-gpt-3-a-deep-dive-8o1p3zof
3. On the Role of Language in Intelligence - https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/rolelang.htm
4. The Great Automatic Grammatizor - Roald Dahl

This episode, we splash around in the "society and culture" part of our podcast and discuss food, history and language. Through these topics, we want to take a brief look at how language, or the lack of it, can influence how we understand intelligence, thought and cognition.

Links and Sources:

1. On Toki Pona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
2. On Linguistic Relativity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080572994500141

Join us in this episode of Dumb Dive, where we skim the surface of the politics of ownership regarding intellectual property and digital rights management.

Links and Sources:

1. IP by Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#ip
2. Definition and description of Copyleft: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html
3. Why copyright makes no sense | The case against intellectual property by The Hated One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVkeJI2feyQ
4. On DRM: https://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=144382

In this episode, we discuss the increasing personification of brands on social networks, how memes have become "social currency" and their real, tangible effects on our society. Misinformation and divisiveness on social media is still a problem left to be solved and the characteristics of each platform create their own challenges for regulation.

Links

Welcome to episode 1 of the Dumb Dive Podcast. In this show, we plan to discuss new and interesting topics in society and philosophy through the lens of technology. 

Today, we talk about extended reality and how we behave in virtual social spaces such as online multiplayer games. We also discuss NFTs and the potential of a technology that can be used to verify if a virtual asset is authentic. 

Links to articles and topics mentioned:

- Real Estate vs Virtual Land (from HackerNoon)

- The Future of Digital Ownership and NFTs (from HackerNoon)

- Gala Games

- The social nexus