AI researchers have a particularly telling — and frankly, somewhat disturbing — meme for understanding AI systems, according to new reporting from The New York Times. And, well, if you were having AI ...

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The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. By Kevin Roose A few months ago, while meeting with an A.I. executive in San Francisco, I ...

The tentacled shoggoth from H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has become a viral meme in the AI world. The meme is a metaphor for concerns that artificial intelligence could one day ...

A new meme has been circulating among artificial intelligence experts in recent weeks – and it is not, repeat, not, the kind of image that is going to soothe you. It is a kind of octopus, recognisable ...

NYP talked with Grant Walker, the head of CG and a VFX supervisor at Framestore, the visual effects studio that designed Lovecraft Country’s version of the Shoggoth. As Walker tells it, elements of ...

Although it is not a major meme, some people use the creature `` Shoggoth '' that appears in the Cthulhu mythos to express AI. While there doesn't seem to be much of a relationship between AI and the ...

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