RANDOM AI-GENERATED IMAGES VOL22Sometimes I think that if one day we all wear an
earpiece with a
Jarvis-style Iron Man whispering
data and
advice in real time, it won’t be that different from what we already are.
The idea is tempting: an
augmented conscience, a
digital Jiminy Cricket with access to all the
information online, able to
guide us,
warn us, or even
nudge us wherever it suits us most.
The
upsides are obvious:
instant knowledge,
faster decisions, and never feeling alone with a question. Imagine you’re unsure about
investing in something,
what to say in a meeting,
how to cook a dish, or even
whether someone is lying—and that voice gives you an answer in seconds. It’d be like having
an extra mind running in parallel.
The
downside is what we rarely consider: what if that
information is
manipulated,
biased, or outright
made up? Then you wouldn’t have a
neutral conscience—you’d have
another voice steering your steps, taking you where others want you to go.
And here’s the
paradox: we fear that
future, but if you look closely,
we’re already living in it.
Each of us is a
bundle of biases,
false beliefs, and
stories seeded in our heads by others.
Some believe whatever they read in a
headline, others repeat what they hear in their
family or what their
social-media bubble dictates. We all act convinced we’re
choosing freely, when in reality we’re moving with
partial,
edited, and often
interested information.
There are endless examples:
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You think you pick a product because “you like it,” when in fact you saw it in 20 disguised ads as recommendations.
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You think your political opinion is yours, but most of the arguments you use come from talk shows or headlines someone pre-cooked for you.
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Even when you decide what’s right or wrong, you do it through a hand-me-down cultural filter without noticing.
The difference between having a
Jarvis in your ear or not might not be that big. What would change is how obvious it becomes: we’d finally admit that
we’ve never been as free as we think, and there have always been
outside voices shaping our conscience.
And since we’re talking about
consciences,
inner voices, and
illusions of freedom, nothing like peeking at another kind of
invented realities: the ones
artificial intelligence creates when it designs
women that look pulled from a
dream. Unreal, yes—but
irresistible to look at.
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Lunchtime.
RANDOM AI-GENERATED IMAGES VOL21While AI accelerates, we’re still trying to understand it—and predict it.
Lately it feels like artificial intelligence isn’t just moving fast:
it’s gone feral. In his latest interview, Geoffrey Hinton—the “godfather” of all this—drops a few unsettling truths: countries compete with countries, companies compete with companies, and when everyone floors the accelerator at once,
there’s no such thing as a collective brake. Nobody wants to be the one to lift their foot while the rest pull ahead.
Hinton sketches a future where AI could replace much of intellectual work,
widen the wealth gap, and strain democracy. He talks about
superintelligence in 10–20 years, and about what’s already here: the
overwhelming advantages of digital systems over humans (they copy for free, learn at another scale, don’t sleep). Then comes the awkward question: if automation doesn’t create enough new jobs this time, who’s paying the rent for those left out?
History says every technological revolution kills some jobs and creates others. The printing press, the steam engine, electricity, the internet… There was always work in the end—different work, but work. And yes, it’s also true that
nobody in 1995 pictured influencers, community managers, or people making a living fine-tuning algorithms. Maybe that happens again. Or maybe not. If the curve steepens the way Hinton suggests, the adjustment could be
faster and more
brutal than we’re used to. Hence the talk of basic income, new social contracts, real lifelong learning (not a sticker), and regulation that doesn’t kill innovation—or hand the future to three players with server farms in the desert.
If you want to hear him unfiltered, the interview is here:
watch the episode.
And now, back to our thing…
While the gurus decide whether they’ll save us or sack us, we stick to what we do:
random images created by AI. Beautiful women, flawless skin that doesn’t exist, gazes nobody set, curves a network imagined after devouring millions of pixels.
It’s synthetic, sure… and it still stirs something very human.
The paradox is delicious: maybe AI will take our jobs, worsen collective decisions, or multiply inequality—but today,
today, look at what it already does.
It fantasizes, provokes, and hooks. And here we are, finger on the mouse, thinking that maybe it’s worth living (and dying) with this spectacle in the background. Relax: the apocalypse isn’t here yet; in the meantime,
enjoy the simulation.
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Elizabeth Hurley and the dress that left everyone stunned at the premiere of “Four Weddings and a Funeral” in 1994.
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