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- Jaron Lanier is an American Computer Scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Virtual Reality (VR) and is often credited with coining the term. Lanier has made significant contributions to the development of computer technology, particularly in the areas of VR, Computer Graphics, and Internet Philosophy.
- Some keywords associated with Jaron Lanier include:
- Virtual Reality (VR): Lanier's work in VR helped lay the foundation for the technology as we know it today. He founded VPL Research, one of the first companies to develop and sell VR products.
- Internet Philosophy: Lanier is a vocal critic of some aspects of digital culture, particularly the centralization of power in the hands of a few tech companies and the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has written extensively about these topics.
- Computer Graphics: Lanier's expertise in computer graphics led to advancements in the field, particularly in VR applications.
- Music and Composition: Lanier is a talented musician and composer, proficient in a wide variety of instruments. His work often combines traditional music with digital technology.
- Data Privacy: Lanier has expressed concerns about data privacy, surveillance, and the commodification of personal information in the digital age.
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier Retrieved:2023-4-23.
- Jaron Zepel Lanier (born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist. Lanier has composed contemporary classical music and is a collector of rare instruments (of which he owns one to two thousand [1] ); his acoustic album, Instruments of Change (1994) features Asian wind and string instruments such as the khene mouth organ, the suling flute, and the sitar-like esraj. Lanier teamed with Mario Grigorov to compose the soundtrack to the documentary film The Third Wave (2007). In 2005, Foreign Policy named Lanier as one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals. In 2010, Lanier was named to the TIME 100 list of most influential people.[2] In 2014, Prospect named Lanier one of the top 50 World Thinkers. In 2018, Wired named Lanier one of the top 25 most influential people over the last 25 years of technological history.
2023
- https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
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- ... The arguments aren’t entirely rational: when I ask my most fearful scientist friends to spell out how an A.I. apocalypse might happen, they often seize up from the paralysis that overtakes someone trying to conceive of infinity. They say things like “Accelerating progress will fly past us and we will not be able to conceive of what is happening.” ...
- ... Anything engineered — cars, bridges, buildings—can cause harm to people, and yet we have built a civilization on engineering. It’s by increasing and broadening human awareness, responsibility, and participation that we can make automation safe; conversely, if we treat our inventions as occult objects, we can hardly be good engineers. Seeing A.I. as a form of social collaboration is more actionable: it gives us access to the engine room, which is made of people. ...
- ... Let’s consider the apocalyptic scenario in which A.I. drives our society off the rails. One way this could happen is through deepfakes. ...
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2014
- (Lanier, 2014) ⇒ Jaron Lanier. (2014). “Who Owns the Future?. ” Simon and Schuster,
2011
- (Lanier, 2011) ⇒ Jaron Lanier. (2011). “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.” Vintage,