Today we talk about Parasocial Relationships, which are asymmetric relationships between media figures and their fans. Links: AI: Is it Out of Control? What (p)doom is. The Influence of the Kardashian-Jenners on Fourth Wave Feminism Through Digital Media Platforms Parasocial Relationships: The Nature of Celebrity Fascinations Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Deeper Meanings of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak Best C-Clamp? Let's Settle This! $4 vs 252, Wilton, Yost, Irwin, Wright Tool, Harden, WEN, Proto TikTok Creator Fund Podcast 74 - 1.5-Sided Parasocial Relationships | The Psychology of Video Games

From touchscreens to voice commands to immersive VR - what's next for Human-Computer Interaction? Links: 238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking - Sean Carroll Risk of Extinction from AI The Mother of All Demos Animagraffs The Sci-Fi interfaces of Wall•E Visions of the Internet in 2035

We dig into what Algorithms actually are, with tangents into why we should care about technical literacy. Links: CBC News: The House | Live Radio | CBC Listen Hugging Face Digital Literacy Archives - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship Brookfield Institute: The State Of Digital Literacy In Canada Algorithms in a Nutshell [Book] Markov Chains | Brilliant Math & Science Wiki Markov chain - Wikipedia How Google autocomplete predictions work - Google Search Help Get word suggestions & fix mistakes - Android - Gboard Help Use Smart Compose and Smart Reply - Google Docs Editors Help WaveFunctionCollapse/README.md Khan Academy - What is an algorithm and why should you care? We can build better, fairer algorithms in a world of angry bias - so why aren’t we?

What’s going on with drones? It seems like they were poised to take over every aspect of our lives just a few years ago, and we haven’t heard much about them recently. Links: ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT - The New York Times ChatGPT Parrot Joke Transcript ChatGPT-powered Furby reveals plans for 'complete domination over humanity' Amazon's Drone Delivery Dream Is Crashing | WIRED Spot® - The Agile Mobile Robot | Boston Dynamics Transport Canada Approves Autonomous Drones For Beyond Visual Line Of Site Monitoring Airbus takes first steps towards 'swarming drones' concept - CONTACT magazine Drone-on-Drone Combat in Ukraine Marks a New Era of Aerial Warfare - Scientific American

Is it possible for AI to have intuition in the same way that humans do? How do we even know what human intuition is, and is it actually that useful? Links: Meeting Owl 3: 360° Video Conferencing Camera, Mic, and Speaker Bing’s Chatbot Declares its Love and Elon Musk Rewrites the Twitter Algorithm - The New York Times Association for Psychological Science: Intuition - It’s More Than a Feeling Can We Rely on Our Intuition? - Scientific American 8 Truths About Intuition | Psychology Today Canada Forbes: AI Won’t Replace Human Intuition Artificial Intuition: The Improbable Deep Learning Revolution Paperback — Jan. 15 2018

Are Cyborgs coming in the near future? Are we already Cyborgs? What is the current state of augmenting our physical and intellectual capabilities? Links: Multimodal Large Language Models Marc Andreessen: We’re heading into a world where a flat-screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100 and a 4-year degree costs $1M | Fortune The tech behind Artifact, the newly launched news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders | TechCrunch Towards a cyborg future: Study reveals support for human enhancement Cyborgs: The truth about human augmentation - BBC Future Automation and cyborg law: To what extent do we “borrow” from machines? | McKinsey & Company Our Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications

How we interact with machines and how is that different from how we interact with humans? Links: Hard Fork Podcast: ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real? Dear Hank & John: About | WNYC Studios | Podcasts (Episode 358) The Atlantic: How AI Will Rewire Us Do you swear at Alexa? What our treatment of AI assistants says about humans | CBC Radio ResearchGate - Stakeholders, Reciprocity, and Firm Performance - April 2009 ScienceDirect - Journal of Business Research - In consilium apparatus: Artificial intelligence, stakeholder reciprocity, and firm performance Amazon.com: Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships

The current AI boom has made us want to revisit and think more about what kind of jobs are at risk of automation or AI replacement? Should we be worried or will new types of jobs outpace the jobs that are becoming obsolete? Links: Washington Post’s In and Out for 2023 Holiday Message 2022 | Thinking Really Slowly - Sean Carroll Will Web Developers be replaced by AI & Robots? Job Automation Risks in 2023: How Robots Affect Employment The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means and how to respond | World Economic Forum Fourth Industrial Revolution - Components - Wikipedia

Today we talk about the internet of things: how has changed it changed our lives and what changes are on the horizon? Links: Cortex #136: 2023 Yearly Themes K-pop: The rise of the virtual girl bands NordicIT - How Internet of Things impact our everyday life Wikipedia - Stuxnet Entrepreneur - Why It’s Too Early To Write Off The Internet of Things Realagriculture - Low bandwidth slows adoption of Internet-of-things on farm