Bruce GilchristThe Transfiguration of Bandit TajōmaruThe bandit Tajōmaru is a central character in Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950), which studies human nature through a series of…8 min read·Oct 22, 2023----
Bruce GilchristMasakoThe emergence of AI-art from a Google laboratory can be considered as a gothic story, with its eerie, exotic atmosphere and depictions…8 min read·Oct 2, 2023----
Bruce GilchristAn Unreliable WoodcutterThe Rashomon effect — based on short stories by Ryu Akutagawa (Rashomon (1915) and In a Grove (1922)) and adapted by filmmaker Akira…6 min read·Jul 4, 2023----
Bruce GilchristThe Spin Cycle—A Fog of EffectsThe general discussion around so-called artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be wrong-headed — those of us outside the scientific…7 min read·Jun 22, 2023----