Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

- Brian Christian

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other…

- Brian Christian

Existence without essence is very stressful.

- Brian Christian

To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the lin…

- Brian Christian

Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't…

- Brian Christian

The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictabl…

- Brian Christian