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The plant’s, the planet’s, brain.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Gemini is natively multimodal, meaning that it can analyze the contents of a picture and answer questions about it, or create an image out of a text prompt. During a briefing on Tuesday, a Google executive uploaded a photo of some math homework in which the student had shown their calculations leading up to the final answer. Gemini was able to identify at which step in the student’s process they had gone awry, and explained their mistake and how to answer the question correctly.
Google Unveils Gemini
Casey Newton
The shift from liberalism to neoliberalism can be understood in this way. Economics is no longer an analysis of a process (think commodity production), but of an activity. It is no longer a logic of processes but instead a “strategic programming of individuals’ activity.” Foucault summarizes American neoliberalism this way: “American neoliberals say this: It is strange that classical political economy has always solemnly declared that the production of goods depends on three factors—land, capital, and labor—while leaving the third unexplored.”
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
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