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Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? ASCA currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Starting Grant project Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation, led by principal investigator Dr. Erik Borra, Dr. Alex Gekker and Dr. Bernhard Rieder. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research AIHR. ASCA is a research community devoted to the comparative and interdisciplinary study of culture (in all its forms and expressions) from a broad humanities perspective. ASCA is home to more than 120 scholars and 160 PhD candidates and is a world-leading international research school. ASCA members share a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates.

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7,278 likes, 19 comments - forensicarchitecture on February 12, 2025: "We’re looking to work with an early career researcher who is versatile, proactive, and has a strong ambition and willingness to engage with the use of new technologies for the investigation of human rights violations and environmental destruction by state and corporate actors. The Researcher will participate in the development of cutting-edge investigative tools for casework, working across spatial and cartographic analysis, computational design, 3D simulations, and open-source research. The Researcher will have demonstrable technical experience with computational design, simulations, and modelling and animating 3D environments. Under the direction of senior researchers on the FA team, the Researcher will be given opportunities to learn FA’s unique methodologies and participate in identifying and developing new tools and techniques. The Researcher will be expected to contribute to various research projects and cases which pursue ambitious conceptual avenues through which to connect histories and legacies of colonialism to contemporary environmental conditions, especially in the context of West Africa. Demonstrable experience of prior research in relevant thematic and geographic contexts is preferred. Candidates must be based in or able to relocate to London. Deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. More info at the link in bio!".

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

A series of state-of-the-art, open source and transparent foundation models for European languages

Job Opening: Curator (Arts and Technology) at Somerset House Trust in London.

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream—or a nightmare—that awakens metaphysical questions on human life. Yet far from a distant technology of the future, the true power of AI lies in its subtle revolution of ordinary life.

Before we begin, I want you to consume this painting.

Search, curate, and enrich media collections for AI training using the Source.Plus marketplace. Safe, consenting, high-quality training data. Public domain datasets for model fine-tuning.

We are seeing a generation of tools built without critically rethinking the purposes they are meant to serve or their role in the broader world. Could we do it differently?

Podcast · MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) · Why do only 10% of companies succeed with AI? In this series by MIT SMR and BCG, we talk to the leaders who've achieved big wins with AI in their companies and learn how they did it. Hear what gets experts from companies like NASA, Github, and others excited to do their jobs every day and what they consider the keys to their success.

Podcast · In Machines we Trust · "In Machines We Trust" is a captivating podcast that delves deep into the world of technology and innovation. Each episode explores a range of cutting-edge topics and current news, offering listeners insights into the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Our discussions focus on how these technological advancements impact society, economy, and our daily lives. Join us as we navigate the intricate and fascinating world of machines, unraveling the mysteries and possibilities they hold.

Podcast · Kyle Polich · Data Skeptic is your source for a perspective of scientific skepticism on topics in statistics, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, and data science. Our weekly podcast and blog bring you stories and tutorials to help understand our data-driven world.

Master Programmes in Fine Arts, Interior Architecture and Design

Avoidance Machines, Part 2

289 likes, 2 comments - thisisbeyondbranding on January 9, 2025: "Spek by @jean.woj A speculative storytelling tool enabling readers to rethink narratives and explore new outcomes, developed throughout the Innovative Conceptualization course at the Master Beyond Branding by @folchstudio and @elisava.school Readers traditionally engage with stories in a passive way, observing the narrative unfold as intended by the author. What if readers could take an active role in reshaping those stories? Spek is a technology that enables readers to edit any part of a story while it's being read. Once a change is made, the system analyzes the modification and dynamically adapts the entire narrative—both its past and its future within set limitations—to reflect the reader's input. This creates a fluid, ever-evolving storytelling experience where readers become co-creators. To address authorship and copyright concerns, the platform hosts only possible deviations that are authorized by their original creators. Authors retain control by setting the boundaries of how much their stories can be reshaped by readers, ensuring their creative vision remains respected. Project developed throughout the Innovative Conceptualization course guided by @paulalopeznuno Innovative Conceptualization sparks novel ideas that challenge the established. The course explores diverse techniques of project research, analysis, and conceptualization as well as creative methodologies to broaden the understanding of normality. Master Beyond Branding is available in Barcelona and Madrid. Inscriptions now open.".

Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani · Episode

An investigation into how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

From disrupting Hollywood to contextualizing media.

Current research in “plural alignment” concentrates on making AI models amenable to diverse human values. But plurality is not simply a safeguard against bias or an engine of efficiency: it’s a key ingredient for intelligence itself.

Let’s begin with that inescapable cultural question of new computational practices and #artificialintelligence #ai . What are the actual affordances, complex...

Shrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing realm of generative AI through possible solutions of designated verified signatures in “plural publics”. Shrey’s recently published paper co-authored with Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl “Plural Publics” is linked in the episode notes.