Senior Maverick at Wired, author of bestseller book, The Inevitable. Also Cool Tool maven, Recomendo chief, and radical optimist.
Pacifica, CA
Joined March 2007
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Fantastic ode to the primary civic achievement of our age: the computer chip. Great writing, keen insights. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
You should be changing your mind about AI at least every 12 months. zou-group.github.io/llm-clai…
Another reason it's unlikely there'll ever be a third generation Martian native: Dust. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26…
I love Bob Dylan, in part because he's from another planet and doing his own thing. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
This year I manufactured Design Prompts, a box of 110 double-sided cards to help creative people get unstuck. Draw a prompt card at random and try what it suggests: “Find the third side” or “Change what you're optimizing” Inspired by Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, but the 208 prompts here are my own, and more general purpose. A gift for someone who makes things. Only 400 copies available. Now on Amazon: link.amazon/B0iYCeXeo
I wrote up my proposal on why I think universal mandatory service would be good for everyone. kevinkelly.substack.com/p/a-…
We now have a genuine world model in Google's Genie4. Real time generation, volumetric, 3D navigation, language prompts. Awesome! deepmind.google/blog/genie-4…
PDOOM is a great music video slopcore with a very SILO like ending. These are getting so good. youtu.be/eTArfoeeUcw?si=hAaT…
My latest essay on the likelihood of each person training their own AI to be the most improbable verion of themselves. kevinkelly.substack.com/p/mo…
The internet archive's Wayback Machine library is a planetary treasure. It preserves the archive of the web. Don't let publishers take it down. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
What if AI becomes the environment? Located everywhere, and no where in particular? It is likely to be a swarm intelligence. Here is what that might mean: kevinkelly.substack.com/p/sw…
Not a normal debate. The debate about whether AI is a "normal technology" has been spun into overdrive with AI-generated musicals defending each side. (AI-musical is becoming a thing.) marginalrevolution.com/margi…
18 years ago Gary Wolf @agaricus and I launched the Quantified Self (QS) movement, which is still going. Gary finally wrote a book detailing what we have learned so far, and on Thursday, October 8, 5:30 PM at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building San Francisco, he and I will introduce his book and do a classic QS show and tell session. Sign up here: quantifiedself.com/events/co…
Whoa! The best human Go player beat the best AI Go program (with a 2 stone lead). kedglobal.com/artificial-int…
Real-time AI video generation has arrived. Right now it is infinite slop, but it can be used to make a video game / world that is generated on demand instead of pre-built. youtube.com/watch?v=wKG8hhSL…
