Technocapitalist AI Blues Concert at Imbue HQ (SF)

Jamie Simon, PI of the Feature Lab at Berkeley has been writing an album of folk songs about AI. Like Technocapitalist AI-Powered Blues, a Bob Dylan-inspired song about four tech CEOs.

“well, one of the suits, he’s kind of a dick
and if his Face were a Book I’d shut it real quick
he’s a wannabe king, a little Caesar
but instead of pizza sells social media
well, he came down from his Metaverse throne
and saw that he was all alone
and he was feeling left out
and it was getting him down
so he saddled up his LLaMa and he rode into town…”

Jamie will be playing his songs for the first time live!In Jamie’s words:
I’ve found that folk songs are somehow a really powerful way to get through to people. Sharing these songs with people, I’ve found that I can get across in one song what would have taken a half hour to say worse. Of course, there are already people writing folk songs about AI, but honestly, I think if your audience is Silicon Valley, you need to know it from the inside. I’m an insider: I’ve been employed by an AI startup for the past four years. I’ve seen what Silicon Valley gets right, and I’ve seen what it gets wrong. It’s really good at building, at doing, at discipline, at personal growth and management; it’s full of folly when it comes to people and the complexities of society, which it always reduces to cartoons. It’s hard to build something that actually benefits someone as a person when you only refer to them as a “user” and only see them through engagement statistics.