Author: Krüg
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A Creative Technologists AI Age Manifesto
How will you connect worlds that have never spoken to each other? Which voices will you amplify? What values will guide your choices? The future isn’t written in code yet—it’s being written by those brave enough to navigate digital chaos with bold authenticity, one unexpected connection at a time.
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“Is A Hotdog A Sandwich?”: Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon w/ Andrew Reid
Forget boring data decks. I just sat down with Rival Technologies CEO Andrew Reid to plan Vancouver’s most ambitious AI hackathon yet. We’re challenging 40+ teams to reinvent how humans experience data – starting with the eternal question: “Is a hot dog a sandwich?”
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Transcending Tech’s Darker Impulses
Data is the new land, algorithms are the settlers, and we’re all just unpaid labor feeding the machine. Every prompt, every input, every “free” tool is a fresh vein of digital gold being mined for corporate empires. And the kicker? They’re selling our own reflections back to us—our words, our art, our creativity—wrapped in a…
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Data Storytelling Hackathon: Where AI Meets Art, And Data Sings Its Truth
Forget Silicon Valley playbooks—we’re writing new rules where data speaks truth and machines amplify humanity. This is AI with soul, purpose, and swagger. #DataStorytelling #VancouverAI
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Vancouver AI: The Community Building BC’s AI Future – February Meetup Recap
Where the real work gets done. No gatekeepers, no hand-holding—just a crew of builders, thinkers, and misfits shaping BC’s AI future. Watch what we’re making.
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Shane Gibson’s AI Sales Dojo
Sales sensei Shane Gibson reveals how combining AI tools with a martial artist’s mindset creates unstoppable sales professionals. Like mastering a fighting form, Shane’s approach to AI in sales requires discipline, consistent practice, and the willingness to embrace discomfort. Discover how his custom AI coaching tools function as a digital dojo, enabling incremental improvements that…
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BC’s AI Ecosystem: A Mycelial Network of Creation
For 15 months, I’ve been mapping a network of creators and builders creating AI on their own terms. From basement studios in East Van to Indigenous tech labs on unceded territories, this isn’t Silicon Valley’s AI revolution. It’s messier, more alive, and probably what the future actually looks like.
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Vancouver AI January 2025 Recap: One Year of Creative Rebellion & Open-Source Disruption
From hackers to poets, legal minds to artists, our community-driven AI revolution is rewriting the rules. Dive into our one-year anniversary celebration and see how we’re making AI open, ethical, and creative.
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Human Biography Podcast w/ Sharad Kharé
The question now isn’t whether we’ll use these ew AI tools. It’s how we’ll use them—and who we’ll become in the process.
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AI’s Next Chapter: Notes from BC’s AI Ecosystem
This is our moment to decide what we want this technology to be. Do we let it become another tool of digital feudalism, or do we grab the reins and steer it toward something more equitable, more creative, more human? That’s the revolution I’m here for.
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Vancouver’s AI Meetups: Where Code Meets Culture
To the suits who think AI is about optimization and efficiency—come see what happens when you let the creatives drive. We’re not just adopting future tech; we’re inventing it. And it sounds GLORIOUS.
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Fears, Hopes, and Dreams for Our Relationship with AI
AI: friend or foe? From cultural erasure to eco-utopias, we’re battling the Ghost in the Algorithm. Dive into fears, hopes, and WTF moments of humanity’s future with machines. Can creativity, ethics, and humanity survive? Spoiler: only if we hack the system. Let’s talk.
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Generative AI Cinematic Podcasts & How Kevin Friel is Hacking the Future of Media
Step into Kevin Friel’s Vancouver voltron den and you’ll find yourself at the beating heart of a creative revolution. Amidst a labyrinth of Nanlite tubes and more cameras than a Tarantino flick, the dude they call the Pixel Wizard is busy rewiring reality one photon at a time. “We built Noah’s Arc in a day,
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NeuRIPS Vancouver: Best AI & ML Papers of 2024
This is just the beginning. The next wave of innovation will be driven not by corporations or universities but by the global community of builders, tinkerers, and dreamers who see AI as a canvas, not a commodity.
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Field Notes from NeurIPS’ Latent Lounge
The future isn’t one size fits all. I’m seeing AI systems specialized for everything from biotech to beat-making. This isn’t just about general intelligence anymore – it’s about finding the sweet spots where AI meets human creativity and need.
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AlphaPrism: Post-Photographic Cybernetic Portraiture
Step into latent space with Autolume—a project that transforms analog nostalgia into dynamic AI-driven art, redefining identity and creativity one portrait at a time.
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Great Creative Reckoning: A Techartist’s Manifesto on Generative Artificial Intelligence.
When everything is possible, the only thing that matters is what you choose to do with that possibility.
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Paddling Together: A Future Built on Connection, Creativity, and Community
Paddling Together toward the future isn’t just about where we go—it’s about how we move. Our community of thinkers, builders, and creators gathered to explore what it means to row in rhythm toward innovation, ethics, and connection.
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Redefining the Future of Indigenous Economic Sovereignty through AI
Today, Indigenous leaders, thinkers, and technology innovators unite to reclaim space in finance and tech, building a $100 billion Indigenous economy rooted in respect, cultural integrity, and decolonized innovation. #IndigenomicsNOW