re:publica 2018 – Mushon Zer-Aviv: The Political Tragedy of Data-Driven-Determinism
Find out more at: https://18.re-publica.com/node/24891Polls and predictions could not foresee the wide appeal of voting for Brexit, for Trump, against the pr...
SXSW Special Jury Award Winning documentary ANOTHER BODY follows American college student Taylor’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online. She dives headfirst into the underground world of deepfakes, and discovers a growing culture of men terrorizing women—influencers, classmates, friends.
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
To understand the divide between AI boosters and doomers, one must unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL.
At the heart of TESCREALism is a “techno-utopian” vision of the future. It anticipates a time when advanced technologies enable humanity to accomplish things like: producing radical abundance, reengineering ourselves, becoming immortal, colonizing the universe and creating a sprawling “post-human” civilization among the stars full of trillions and trillions of people. The most straightforward way to realize this utopia is by building superintelligent AGI.
On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.Za...
No Camera Cinema. A selection of AI-augmented teasers as artifacts, demonstrating a profound commitment to experimentation, inviting scrutiny and reflection,...
The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous
In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers. The Moderators...
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI
Generative AI systems act like "stochastic parrots," using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That's incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.