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"The glass sculptures of Isabel De Obaldia evoke ancient spirits of Panama's rainforests and seas. Many of her pieces have rustic textures that infuse her powerful forms with a compelling force, echoing the volcanic stone sculptures of ancient times. Her metates and vertical works are inspired by Pre-Columbian sculptures from the provinces of Chiriquí and Veraguas, where artisans carve large animal metates and peg-based images of chieftains.

-Dicey Taylor, Metates, New York, Mary Anne Martin/ Fine Art

Isabel De Obaldia was born in Washington D.C. in 1957 of French and Panamanian parents. De Obaldia was raised in Panama, where her father, Guillermo Trujillo was a celebrated painter. She studied architecture at the University of Panama and drawing at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. She received her B.F.A. in Graphic Design and Cinematography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979. She went on to study at the Art Students League in NYC in 1982. Since 1987 she started working with glass at the world-renowned Pilchuck Glass School.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

@deadxxbambi invited me to participate (Ty 🤘), so here are several songs that I've been interested in lately. Forgive the genre whiplash in advance 😅:

And one more from my favourites cause 😎:

So I'm gonna cheat, and just throw in a bunch of people, cause I wanna know what you all are listening to as well 🤓😆 you don't have to though, no pressure! 😊

@transistor-rhythm-909 , @p-a-c-i-f-i-s-m , @paperrocketship , @jamabushi , @magnamyx , @stick-arms , @windofthegods ,

Hot chip - One Pure Thought

Fischerspooner - Butterscotch Goddamn

Guppy - Aliens

Blur - For Tomorrow

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Healing Power of Nothing (note, I realized I wanted to post Hairspray Heart instead because it has a vid, but I'm on mobile and it's too clunky to change links)

BONUS!

New Young Pony Club - We Want To

Honorable mention because it might be my favorite music video and I never get sick of the song

The Black Rabbit of Inle

mixed media on cold press paper