Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 60: What's up With AI?
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by remus jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical, educational + theoretical contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson.
Episode 60: On this episode of Drawing a Dialogue, remus and Cathy discuss AI technologies. What is the history of artificial intelligence? What are the current conversations surrounding AI, and what is it actually capable of?
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Theme song by Downtown Boys
Citation:
https://www.wga.org/contracts/know-your-rights/artificial-intelligence
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about
FURTHER READING:
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-intelligence - good, accessible explainers of how various ai technologies work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence
https://www.tumblr.com/reachartwork/755206156948029440/please-just-let-me-explain-redux
https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/04/03/why-training-ai-cant-be-ip-theft
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-chatgpt
https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog/big-oil-distracts-their-carbon-footprint-tricking-you-focus-yours
https://open.substack.com/pub/drdevonprice/p/there-is-no-evidence-that-ai-causes
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
EXAMPLES OF AI WORK
https://www.tumblr.com/reachartwork/756764851282542592?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/robsheridan/715870472171077632/one-year-ago-my-meat-gala-ai-body-horror?source=share (somewhat NSFW, body horror/gore warning)
https://system-wires.itch.io/i-fucking-hate-you-people (NSFW)
https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/the-void (long, very worthwhile essay)
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