Artificiality

We are excited to announce the Artificiality Summit 2025! On October 23-25, we will host our second annual Summit in Bend, Oregon. We are moving to a new venue and adding another full day of programming. We are increasing capacity but keeping it small enough to maintain the intimate nature which was so popular in 2024. For those who didn't make it in 2024, here are some of the reactions we received: - "Thank you, Helen Edwards and Dave Edwards for the engaging, diverse group you have put together. This is not your everyday conference, and especially not the everyday AI conference." Don Norman - “I will remember the Artificiality Summit, well…forever. It was more intellectually compelling than anything I can remember participating in.” John Pasmore - “The Artificiality Summit struck the perfect balance of rigor and playfulness, formality and informality. It was a dazzling event and a impeccably curated roster of speakers.” Jamer Hunt - "Still glowing from the conference, so much intelligence, but also kindness, safety and warmth. A humane and vital discussion of technology as a part of humanity and humanity as part of something much bigger." Whit Morriss - "From the beginning to end, it was a perfectly curated weekend of building connections, sharing ideas and having genuine conversations across science, design, art and the innovations that are expanding our future and imagining what can be next in AI." Abigail Snodgrass - "That was one of the best tech experiences I have ever had. I have been to all sorts of screwball conferences and big-name experiences. I even built a few. But yours was something different. It was intimate, humble, and curious. A little feisty, a little nervous, but completely authentic. On Sunday afternoon, I looked around and thought, 'THIS is my tribe.'" Dave Merwin https://buff.ly/3CNbLpJ #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

Announcing the Artificiality Summit 2025! Join us on October 23-25, 2024 in Bend, Oregon our second annual Summit. And sign up now for our Super Early Bird discount through December 31. Check out all the details at the link below. The Summit will focus on “The Artificiality”: the emerging paradigm where the boundaries between organic and synthetic systems blur, driven by the fundamental role of information and computation in complex systems. The Artificiality encompasses the reshaping of human consciousness, identity, and experience through our increasing symbiosis with digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and information networks. It challenges traditional distinctions between living and non-living, evolved and designed, biological and artificial, proposing a new understanding of life and intelligence based on information processing and computation. The Summit will explore five key domains where AI is transforming human experience: - Intimacy: How AI reshapes human relationships and connections - Spatiality: The impact of AI on our experience of physical and digital spaces - Knowledge: Evolution of learning and discovery in an AI-augmented world - Consciousness: Shifting understanding of human and machine awareness - Minds: The emergence of hybrid human-AI cognitive systems Speakers will be announced soon. Last year's speakers included: Joscha Bach, Jonathan Coulton, Adam Cutler, Katie Davis, Jamer Hunt, Michael Levin, Josh Lovejoy, Don Norman, John Pasmore, Steven Sloman, Elena Sergeeva, Aekta Shah, Barbara Tversky, Ashley Tyner, and William Tyner. https://buff.ly/40ZauG6 #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

Unending gratitude and appreciation for the energy, openness, and kindness of the Artificiality community who gathered for the Imagining Summit this weekend in Bend. We journeyed through the blending of synthetic and organic worlds, intimacy, spatiality, knowledge, consciousness, minds, kids & the future, inclusion, art & music. We learned, challenged, explored, wandered, and wondered. We sparked new friendships and deepened old ones. We feasted, shared stories, listened, and laughed. Helen and I are grateful beyond words for this extraordinary group taking a risk with us—trusting that we would give everything we have. We are inspired and overwhelmed. And we are already planning next year’s Summit! Thank you again to our sponsors—Oregon State University-Cascades, Bast AI, Wiqi—and our partners—House of Beautiful Business, DXM, Bend Entrepreneur Lab Much more to share soon. For now, here are a few photos. Aekta Shah, PhD Adam Cutler Alan Eyzaguirre Barbara Tversky Beth Rudden Cathy Clarke Don Norman Elena Sergeeva Jamer Hunt John Pasmore Joscha Bach Josh Lovejoy Lee Swearingen Michael Levin Rix Kramlich Steven Sloman

We're proud to have Bend Entrepreneur Lab as a partner in The Imagining Summit. The Bend Entrepreneur Lab is building a new community for startup founders in Bend—the home of Artificiality and The Imagining Summit. Thank you for your partnership and friendship! https://buff.ly/3Y5ltvD #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

We're proud to have DXM as a partner in The Imagining Summit. Founded by friends we've known for nearly 30 years, DXM is delivering an exciting art project to The Imagining Summit which leverages the company's AI-powered design service. Our attendees will have the opportunity to co-create art with a Portland-based artist, Patrick Stull, using DXM's AI system. Thank you for your partnership and friendship! https://buff.ly/3Y5ltvD #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

We're proud to have House of Beautiful Business as a partner in The Imagining Summit. Extending our multi-year partnership, The House of Beautiful Business is our guiding light for amazing events and community and its influence on The Imagining Summit can't be overestimated. Thank you for your partnership and friendship! https://buff.ly/3Y5ltvD #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

We're proud to have Wiqi.ai sponsor The Imagining Summit! What is Wiqi.ai? Our Summit attendees will learn more... Thank you for your support! https://buff.ly/3Y5ltvD #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

We're proud to have Bast AI as a sponsor of The Imagining Summit! The Bast platform empowers businesses to create accurate, transparent, and explainable AI—a fantastic mission to couple with imagining a hopeful future with AI. Thank you! https://buff.ly/3Y5ltvD #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knowledge #mindforourminds

We're proud to have Oregon State University-Cascades as a sponsor of The Imagining Summit. OSU-Cascades extends the academic and research excellence of OSU to Central Oregon, providing a vibrant university with a growth plan of supporting 5,000 students. And OSU-Cascades is the ideal academic supporter of our Summit! Thank you! https://buff.ly/3Y5ltvD #artificiality #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #spaciality #consciousness #knoweldge #mindforourminds

Whether you think we’re descending the back side of the hype cycle or you think the AI bubble is deflating, it’s pretty clear that we’re experiencing an important expectation-to-experience gap in the world of generative AI. While the promise is that generative AI will be the most significant technology we have experienced, the reality is far from that today. Yes, language and image models are impressive. But the realized impact leaves something to be desired. The fever pitch of AI expectations has grown in the echo chamber of Big Tech competition and their various cheerleaders. With every player clamoring for more attention, each new feature release is treated like the next stride in a 100-meter race, with victory won or lost declared by the next social feed update. The breathless coverage of the #unthinkingAIenthusiasts would drown out even the most excited coverage by sports journalists at the Olympics. OpenAI has won! Google’s new model is now the winner! Apple is so far behind, it will never catch up! I see faults in Big Tech pushing out ill-fitting products to boost investor attention. I see faults in large corporate customers declaring their AI intentions so as not to be left behind. And I see faults in the #unthinkingAIenthusiasts who appear to have more talent creating attention than understanding the trends they are attempting to surf. But these faults aren’t really about any individual or company. Those faults are the effect of the last gasp of the attention economy. https://buff.ly/3XtmBHX #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #intimacyeconomy #chatgpt #complexchange #changemanagement #futureofwork #artificiality #mindforourminds #intimacyeconomy #agenticweb