On Spurious Content and Visual Synonyms

The Datafication of a Kiss

A new project to identify sites and vocabularies of digital IDs and AI

Bas van de Poel, co-founder of hybrid design studio and think tank Modem, discusses how design can shape a better future using technology

This article explores the conditions and modalities under which a state can incur responsibility in relation to violations of international law involving milita

The algorithm can recreate both the object's geometry and material.

Machines as a complementary lens

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.

Consumers need transparency about how such systems are used, says professor of linguistics Emily M Bender

The long read: From ancient Egyptian cubits to fitness tracker apps, humankind has long been seeking ever more ways to measure the world – and ourselves. But what is this doing to us?

Mutual learning has been explicitly stated as a core tenet in the canon of participatory design, socially engaged art and other community-oriented and -driven “making” processes. Yet, what is mutual learning and how does it concretize in the world?

Every dataset communicates a different perspective. When you shift your perspective, your conclusions can shift, too.

The world of Artificial-Intelligence generated art has exploded over the last twelve months. In January 2021, OpenAI released two models that changed the game: DALL-E and CLIP. These models showed what might be possible by generating visual art from text-based prompts.

Onomatopee

Demanding inclusive and radically diverse digital futures

We analyze how advice from an AI affects complementarities between humans and AI, in particular what humans know that an AI does not know: “unique human knowled

The aim to transcend that which makes us human is not the path to serving humanity.

The Universal Hip Hop Museum is coming to New York City, and an MIT team led by D. Fox Harrell has designed for it unique creative experiences at the intersection of art, learning, and technology.

I was on a panel tonight discussing Ethics in Design Research. I’m on a lot of panels about design and ethics because I’ve worked in AI…

A year in workshops

Data-Driven Exploitation in the Gig Economy

The role of a designer is to intentionally shape the world around us with the resources we have available. That world is increasingly shaped by data sets, algorithms, and pre-trained models.

Learn about bias and variance in our second animated data visualization.

When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community. The world has changed since then. Today it is clear that "good old-fashioned AI," based on the idea of using symbolic representations to produce general intelligence, is in decline (although several believers still pursue its pot of gold), and the focus of the Al community has shifted to more complex models of the mind. It has also become more common for AI researchers to seek out and study philosophy. For this edition of his now classic book, Dreyfus has added a lengthy new introduction outlining these changes and assessing the paradigms of connectionism and neural networks that have transformed the field.At a time when researchers were proposing grand plans for general problem solvers and automatic translation machines, Dreyfus predicted that they would fail because their conception of mental functioning was naive, and he suggested that they would do well to acquaint themselves with modern philosophical approaches to human beings. What Computers Can't Do was widely attacked but quietly studied. Dreyfus's arguments are still provocative and focus our attention once again on what it is that makes human beings unique.