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Detect braids, afros, cornrows and more with machine learning and black girl magic.

Online | 5 - 18 May, 2021

Khroma is the fastest way to discover, search, and save color combos and palettes you'll love.

Happening online and in-person (Hong Kong) | 10 - 14 June, 2021

By ai-explanations (an ad-hoc feminist collective of digital rights researchers, design thinkers, artists, journalists and social media specialists) | "HOW is AI and digital technology shaping our realities, rights, justice, equality ? What are the harms? How can we counter these harms as individuals, communities, governments? What are we hopeful for and how can we fix or overthrow these systems together?"

Exploratory data analysis and visualization for text data using NLP

COMUZI | London, UK

KIM – Critical AI Studies

Ars Technica | In the wake of Google's AI Go victory, filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created "Jetson" and fueled him with hundreds of sci-fi TV and movie scripts. Building a team including Thomas Middleditch, star of HBO's Silicon Valley, they gave themselves 48 hours to shoot and edit whatever Jetson decided to write.

The mimic project offers a way to make new kinds of music, sound and creative arts experiences using machine learning, machine listening and artificial intelligence.

The mimic project offers a way to make new kinds of music, sound and creative arts experiences using machine learning, machine listening and artificial intelligence.

The team at Variable Studio designed and developed algorithms to generate book covers for an NGO web portal. Read through the case to see the nicely written and visualized process.

From Openers by AI: Can't find the right words to start a conversation? We have used GPT-3 to generate dozens of thousands of Tinder openers and picked the best of them (according to our limited experience).

A virtual event on AI for healthcare presented by DeepLearning.AI and HAI, and supported by AIMI.

Google Creative Lab | New York or Remote (EST)

A collection of interactive Machine Learning projects curated by Paperspace Gradient.

A bit of a longer watch, but if you're looking for a documentary to watch, take a look at this one! Full documentary available on Youtube. "As the drama unfolds, more questions emerge: What can artificial intelligence reveal about a 3000-year-old game? What can it teach us about humanity?"

Tactical Tech | Berlin (Remote?)

Twitter / META | San Francisco, New York City, Remote US, Seattle

From AIartists.org | Check out these tools for generating AI art!

Open call for artists, designers, and the general public — Goethe-Institut, Gray Area, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Artivive

All Tech Is Human | Check out more jobs here!

Latent Riot is a series of artificial protest signs produced by a generative neural network. Thanks Ploi for sharing this on Slack!

From Daniel Leufer and AI Myths team (Mozilla Fellowshop Project) | With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.

By Google Arts & Culture | Interactively discover this fascinating language by means of three dedicated gateways: First, you can “Learn” about the language of ancient Egypt by following a short educational introduction in six easy steps. Secondly, Fabricius invites you to “Play” and translate your own words and messages into hieroglyphics ready to be shared with your friends and family.

By Stanford HAI | The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field.

By Ben Syverson, IDEO | What happens when you invite GPT-3 to a virtual brainstorm session? A designer/developer at IDEO ran an experiment and wrote about it here!

From AI Impact Alliance & Valentine Goddard. Thanks to Dorota for sharing. | Multiple dates available.