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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.

WeAlgo uses face recognition AI to protect our screen privacy, instead of violating it.

By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Marketing AGI, Shipping Commercial AI The Dream of AGI and the Fully Automated Organization Acknowledgments Download the full report here INTRODUCTION In the spring of […]

"I'm trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife's advice." That's Browser Company CEO, Josh Miller, in his

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

I am excited to announce that my project proposal "Participatory Design Justice for Ethical AI Transitions" has been awarded 1.3 M euros by the Italian… | 30 comments on LinkedIn

[Das zweisprachige Interview verfügt über deutsche und englische Untertitel]"Emotion und Künstliche Intelligenz – Der Mythos von Universalität, Transparenz u...

This working paper is dedicated to artistic positions that critically deal with ‘artificial intelli- gence’ and automated pattern recognition through algorithms. Using a series of examples, it shows the social struggles that results from the distortions of bias and how artists react to it. Building on analyses by Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, projects by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace, Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, Elisa Giardina Papa, Francis Hunger and Flupke, Erika Scourti, Mimi Onuoha, Nora Al-Badri, and Jan Nikolai Nelles are presented.

This is a recording from our event on February 21st, 2024. Dr. Mél Hogan presents on the Environmental Impacts of Chat GPT and AI Technologies. The video captions were made by a human captioner. Here is a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y2vBwqIhn3ae3DH8AKORue-o-RJWZoMXvyGso_c_d1I/edit?usp=sharing About the speaker: Dr. Mél Hogan is the host of The Data Fix podcast and the Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University. Her research focuses on data centres and infrastructure, understood from within the contexts of settler-colonial extractivism, planetary catastrophe, and collective anxieties about the future. http://melhogan.com. About the event: This event is also part of the 6th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepubl...), organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, Digital Citizen Research, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, ReQEF, and more (see our website!)

[Das zweisprachige Interview verfügt über deutsche und englische Untertitel]"Wie die Bilddatensammlung ImageNet Wirklichkeit (re-)konstruiert". Das Interview...

RecurseChat, an personal AI app that lets you talk with local AI

Bring your vision to life with Visual Electric, the first image generator built for designers.

Nature - A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few...

A course on aligning smol models. Contribute to huggingface/smol-course development by creating an account on GitHub.

Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI agents

The SAT is a research, creation and training center dedicated to digital culture. A unique place in Montreal, the SAT presents immersive experiences in its d...

Over the past twenty years, social movements from DREAMers and the Movement for Black Lives, to queer and trans resistance, and domestic worker organizing, have helped tell a new story of America—an inclusive vision of our society that has galvanized a new and newly empowered generation. This achievement was no accident: movement leaders have honed communications techniques, political messages, and storytelling strategies in a new struggle for narrative power. Until now, these efforts have largely been piecemeal and disconnected from one another.