{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Past of Cyberspace is the Future of AI","description":"What does the Metaverse have to do with AI?&amp;nbsp; Rewind to 1994 when new kinetic and spatial metaphors were first breaking through into public consciousness, creating new action words for navigating a simulated world that could be experienced through the windshield of a computer screen. We examine why a generation that has grown up in the simulated reality of social media is suddenly rejecting the techno fatalism of journalistic meta-narratives and resurrecting critical media theory as a vehicle for remembering the precedence of the real world as their frame of reference. And the role of AI in establishing new metaphors. Show note: For more on this episode's discussion, see  &quot;Range: Why Generalists Triumph in an Age of Specialization&quot; and &quot;Jean Baudrillard in Cyberspace: Internet, Virtuality, and Postmodernity.&quot; [JSTOR access required].&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Animated Intelligence: The Art &amp; Science of AI","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/475359","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/27229950\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/154596888"}