An amazing opportunity for an artist/scholar interested in art+science, technology and society at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Application due Dec. 10. Please share contact me with any questions. https://www.hmc.edu/dean-of-faculty/2023/10/12/harvey-mudd-college-hixon-riggs-early-career-fellowship-in-science-and-technology-studies/?fbclid=IwAR0qmpTLwi-f8QSqE4LG_HScHMaWOplRIQD2cW8kW9ZEYDHoWl3NFFDerFg
It is truly difficult to comprehend extinction. What does it mean to lose a species which has evolved over millions of years in exquisite adaptation to its habitat?
I have experienced the diminution of populations of insects, frogs, birds and trees in my own lifetime, the span of which marks the beginning of the environmental movement and also more than half of the world’s contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. I cannot find the words to describe the loss, and I am existentially nauseated to think that I am part of the first generation to witness a mass extinction event in their own lifetime
I picture a bot in a future desert lamenting the plants and animals of the Holocene. What an ecosystem it was!
So we designed a bot that generates a poem a day using OpenAI's text-davinci-003 model and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It will lament for us. Here is @lament_AI , archived at /
