As actors and writers push back on automation, Hollywood is in the midst of an AI hiring boom
Amid a pair of Hollywood strikes that have found screenwriters and actors questioning the rise of artificial intelligence, studios and streaming companies are bulking up on AI staff.
How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse
"More recently, wealthy tech philanthropists have begun recruiting an army of elite college students to prioritize the fight against rogue AI over other threats. Open Philanthropy alone has funneled nearly half a billion dollars into developing a pipeline of talent to fight rogue AI, building a scaffolding of think tanks, YouTube channels, prize competitions, grants, research funding and scholarships — as well as a new fellowship that can pay student leaders as much as $80,000 a year, plus tens of thousands of dollars in expenses."
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Waag | Abdo Hassan on cultivating joyful resistance
The countdown has begun for The PublicSpaces Conference: For a Collective Internet, set to take place on June 27 and 28. Emma Yedema, editor and producer at PublicSpaces, sat down with Abdo Hassan for an interview.
The Intersectional AI Toolkit gathers ideas, ethics, and tactics for more ethical, equitable tech. It shows how established queer, antiracist, antiableist, neurodiverse, feminist communities contribute needed perspectives to reshape digital systems. The toolkit also offers approachable guides to both intersectionality and AI. This endeavor works from the hope that code can feel approachable for everyone, can move us toward care and repair—rather than perpetuating power imbalances—and can do so by embodying lessons from intersectionality.
PhD Position: Regulating Digital Labor: Investigating the needs and concerns of the workers.
Are you interested in talking with the human workers behind artificial intelligence (AI)? This PhD-position might be something for you!
This project is about the human laborers behind AI. Their work is presented online in small tasks, such as labeling...
Most musicians are not VJs. But if you still want to have appealing visuals to enhance your live music, AI can help. In this article we discuss an example that was made for Kay Slice, a Dutch-Ghanaian afro-futurism artist. The visual belongs to a live song that is getting wilder and that's why the visuals are getting more and more expressive. Below you can find the end result. This example uses Dall-E, a simple text-to-image system. With Dall-E you generate images and you can also ask the system
Part 1 # Models, Views, Controllers # Model View Controller is a server architecture model invented at Xerox Parc in the late 70s. Initially, a system to implement graphic user interfaces for the desktop machine; it is now the core of practically...
To further the understanding of training data, the Knowing Machines Project developed SeeSet, an investigative tool for examining the training datasets for AI. Here you will find nine essays from individual members of our team. Each one uses SeeSet to explore a key AI dataset and its role in the construction of 'ground truth.'