Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Looking at the Machine - Eryk Salvaggio, Katrina Sluis & Joel Stern
Let’s begin with that inescapable cultural question of new computational practices and #artificialintelligence #ai . What are the actual affordances, complex...
Shrey Jain: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects | RadicalxChange(s)
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.
AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model
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 […]