Listen to this episode from FUTURE-PROOF on Spotify. DEEP-DIVE is a series of public talks, each delving deeper into a specific topic already highlighted by a project at Blessed Foundation, enabling the nuances of important questions to be explored. The first DEEP-DIVE episode coincides with the exhibition currently on display at Blessed Foundation - RAPTURE by Andrea Khôra. We explore key themes in Andrea’s work, focusing on psychedelics and AI. Hear from Shaneihu Yawanawá, Utxi Yawanawá, Yawatume Yawanawá and Maria Fernanda Gebara, who share their views on the psychedelics boom from the perspective of indigenous traditions and ethics. We're also joined by Neşe Devenot, whose research was a major influence in Andrea’s work, offering a critical assessment of the collision of psychedelics and capitalism. With further insights from Andrea Khôra and Sylwia Serafinowicz (Managing Director at Blessed Foundation), dive into this episode for an inspiring and thought-provoking exploration of ancestral intelligence vs artificial intelligence. RAPTURE by Andrea Khôra is showing at Blessed Foundation until 27th June 2024. Contact info@blessed-foundation.org for more information.
Seeing Like a Data Structure | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Our data-centric way of seeing the world isn't serving us well. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier argue that we need new socio-technical systems that leave room for the inherent messiness of reality.
Join Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry McInerney as they ask the experts: what is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? Each week, they invite scholars, industry practitioners, activists, and more to provide their unique perspective on what feminism can bring to the tech industry and the way that we think about technology. With each conversation, The Good Robot asks how feminism can provide new perspectives on technology’s biggest problems.
Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real Data – Real Effects
The 15th edition of Tactics&Practice explores how the ambiguous quality of data can be used as a tool to produce real-world outcomes. Can the act of purposely creating data provide agency within data-driven systems? Is it possible to manipulate data to create specific effects? (Un)real Data – Real Effects is a programme by !Mediengruppe Bitnik […]
Generationship | Ep. #11, Ghost Workers with Adio Dinika of DAIR Institute | Heavybit
Rachel and Adio Dinika of DAIR Institute discuss the challenges faced by platform laborers around the world, including unfair compensation and job insecurity.
🦜Stochastic Parrots Day Reading List🦜 On March 17, 2023, Stochastic Parrots Day organized by T Gebru, M Mitchell, and E Bender and hosted by The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) was held online commemorating the 2nd anniversary of the paper’s publication. Below are the readings which po...
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜
Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. In Proceedings of FAccT 2021, pp.610
KI TeGG on Instagram: "The Hidden Layers: AI and Design conference is coming soon and we are glad to present our speakers! 🎤 --- THURSDAY, JUNE 13: - Maria-Teresa de Rosa-Palmini is a PhD Student seeking to unravel the diverse cultural, ethnical, and societal implications of advancing multimodal deep learning models. - Ralf Baecker is an artist that makes installations, machines, and performances that explore the underlying mechanisms of new media and technology. - Joana Moll is an artist and researcher that explores in her work the way techno-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans, and ecosystem. - Claudia Sevivas is a researcher that documents artistics projects using 3D motion capture systems, looking for new ways of represent and visualize movement. --- FRIDAY, JUNE 14: - Pamela Scorzin is a professor that lives between Dortmund, Milan and Los Angeles interested in scenography, fashion art, artificial intelligence, and mixed realities. - Silvi
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‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No, Collective Intelligence.
Listen to this episode from The Ezra Klein Show on Spotify. A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even boring or offensive. But what could it look like for artists to collaborate with A.I. systems in making art that is actually generative, challenging, transcendent?Holly Herndon offered one answer with her 2019 album “PROTO.” Along with Mathew Dryhurst and the programmer Jules LaPlace, she built an A.I. called “Spawn” trained on human voices that adds an uncanny yet oddly personal layer to the music. Beyond her music and visual art, Herndon is trying to solve a problem that many creative people are encountering as A.I. becomes more prominent: How do you encourage experimentation without stealing others’ work to train A.I. models? Along with Dryhurst, Jordan Meyer and Patrick Hoepner, she co-founded Spawning, a company figuring out how to allow artists — and all of us creating content on the internet — to “consent” to our work being used as training data.In this conversation, we discuss how Herndon collaborated with a human chorus and her “A.I. baby,” Spawn, on “PROTO”; how A.I. voice imitators grew out of electronic music and other musical genres; why Herndon prefers the term “collective intelligence” to “artificial intelligence”; why an “opt-in” model could help us retain more control of our work as A.I. trawls the internet for data; and much more.Mentioned:“Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” by Holly Herndon“xhairymutantx” by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, for the Whitney Museum of Art“Fade” by Holly Herndon“Swim” by Holly Herndon“Jolene” by Holly Herndon and Holly+“Movement” by Holly Herndon“Chorus” by Holly Herndon“Godmother” by Holly Herndon“The Precision of Infinity” by Jlin and Philip GlassHolly+Book Recommendations:Intelligence and Spirit by Reza NegarestaniChildren of Time by Adrian TchaikovskyPlurality by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and ⿻ CommunityThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Jack Hamilton.