Michael Sullivan SmithThe Concept Of Attention Is All You NeedA human mind, teaching itself through encoded media, works the same as deep learning encoding digital input for a transformer. However…2 min read·Dec 12, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithTrail Heads to PathwaysThe amount of input being generated for the Internet is making an adversarial network of all the minds available to it. Generative…2 min read·Dec 6, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithWhat’s NextSoon all our reservations about trusting social media will be turned around. Soon rewards — and that bringing an understanding of what…3 min read·Nov 6, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithProjecting Moses Yale BeachPublisher of the New York Sun and creator of the Associated Press, Moses Yale Beach experienced the earliest industrialization of America…7 min read·Oct 14, 2021--1--1
Michael Sullivan SmithThe Metaverse Is ArtThe word “Metaverse” is getting a lot of play — well on its way to make the OED new words for 2022. An OED pick for 2021; Media Literacy…3 min read·Sep 10, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithForking Facebook’s MetaverseFacebook has a ten year plan to put it in a Metaverse, but facebook.com/greatknot has been, for some time, building itself around features…3 min read·Aug 10, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithGenerating Non Tradable TokensEach year you can meet me on the Saugerties Artists Tour where I walk dozens of visitors around my art and, hopefully, help make it…3 min read·Jul 29, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithWhy Digital Art?As digital art becomes commonplace, it is necessary for its digital artists to have staked a claim on the origin of their reason for being…7 min read·Jul 21, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithFinding Meaning In (A) TrustAnymore, using the word “trust” seems a statement on an identity crisis turned morose. There’s grown some social signal in its use that has…3 min read·May 9, 2021----
Michael Sullivan SmithCrypto’s Origins in What’s Dubious as DigitalLooking back, information overload has been the nemesis of trust since the advent of writing, and especially with the printed word…4 min read·Apr 25, 2021----