From 21-25 November EA Hotel will be hosting Sahil’s Live Theory workshop as part of our AI Winter Season.

You can also support Sahil on Manifund here.

What’s it about?

“This is an extended rendezvous for creating culture and technology, for those enlivened by reimagining AI-based interfaces. 
Specifically, we’re creating for the near future where our infrastructure is embedded with realistic levels of intelligence (i.e., only mildly creative but widely adopted) yet full of novel, wild design paradigms anyway.”

You can read more about it in Sahil's words over at his post (linked above). I^[1] wrote the following as a kind of foreword, a less nuanced introduction for those who don't yet speak fluent Sahil.

Some aspects of the future are easy to predict, others much harder.
Those things which are hard to predict tend to be those things which are hard to even imagine - which are deeply unintuitive from our current perspective.

And so we have two different kinds of futurist - those who seek more, and those who seek different. The prosaic, and the pre-paradigmatic. The legible, and the deeply weird.

Sahil is an exemplar of the latter, and the work he’s doing - the work you’re invited to come and participate in - is all-in on imagining the unimagined, on scaling the local maxima of our intuitions in order to see beyond, and then to apply those insights.

To see the possible futures, and build a path toward the the nicer ones - one interface/tool at a time.

Sahil: "Specifically, designs that start with intelligence and attentivity being cheap and fast and ubiquitous (as trends suggest) and used not for hyperpersonalization, but more interpersonalization."  

If you’re happy with the path we’re on, if you're sure that happy futures come from doing more of the same, this workshop probably isn't for you.

But if you think, as we do, that other paths are needed, that the immediate future can be truly weirdly and wonderfully different from the present…

If you want the chance to do something genuinely new, if you are comfortable with weird, if you are seeking to expand the thoughts that are thinkable…

Then come to Blackpool, and actually try to build a better future.

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   David, Operations Manager at EA Hotel