Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI). – Quinta’s weblog
Duke University Press - Critical AI
Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.
It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.
Metaphors for designers working with AI
Making Kin with the Machines
Essay Competition Winner
AI By the People, For the People
This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools
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.
Risk and Harm: Unpacking Ideologies in the AI Discourse
Last March, there was a very interesting back-and-forth on AI regulation between the Future of Life Institute (FLI) and the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) institute. We analyzed the language and rhetorics in the two letters and we teased out fundamental ideological differences between DAIR and FLI. We are concerned about problematic ethical views connected with longtermism entering the mainstream by means of public campaigns such as FLI's, and we offer two analytical lenses (Existential Risk, Ongoing Harm) for assessing them.
Ferri gloerich cui preprint
9 ways to see a Dataset
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.'
Book: You Look Like A Thing — Janelle Shane
Parables of AI in/from the Majority World: An Anthology
This anthology was curated from stories of living with data and AI in/from the majority world, narrated at a storytelling workshop in October 2021 organized by Data & Society Research Institute.
A Theory of Vibe, by Peli Grietzer — Glass Bead
Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence
Symbolic language can help us grasp the nature and power of what is coming
HOLO 3: Mirror Stage
Nora N. Khan assembles a cast of luminaries to consider the far-reaching implications of AI and computational culture.
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A Virtue-Based Framework to Support Putting AI Ethics into Practice | Montreal AI Ethics Institute
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AI Is a Lot of Work
How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.
Democratising AI: Multiple Meanings, Goals, and Methods | Montreal AI Ethics Institute
🔬 Research Summary by Elizabeth Seger, PhD, a researcher at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) in Oxford, UK, investigating beneficial AI model-sharing norms and practices.
2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Collected data and analysis from a large survey of machine learning researchers.
Creative Strategies for Algorithmic Resistance! — Cybernetic Forests.
The machines that nudge us can be nudged back: Here are some ideas on how to steer them.
AI and the American Smile
How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression. "For the diversity of human expression to survive algorithmic hegemony."
Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, will raise the alarm about how AI is being deployed today and use AI to speak truth to power.
The Problem With AI Is the Problem With Capitalism
Workers’ fear of new artificial intelligence technology makes sense: that technology has the potential to eliminate their jobs. But if we didn’t live under capitalism, AI could be used to liberate us from drudgery rather than hurl us into poverty.
ChatGPT and the Magnet of Mediocrity
It has only been a little under four months since ChatGPT came out, and yet I already feel super behind in publishing this story. I guess…
Machine Bias — MODEM
Machine Bias explore the unconscious bias built into AI systems and map potential strategies for a more inclusive tech landscape.
The AI Crowd is Mad
With this write-up, I want to outline my current thinking around large language
models like OpenAI's chatGPT.
Dossier 14: Co-creation with AI Archives - The Hmm
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web | The New Yorker
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.
Introduction to Blueprints for Intelligence - Philipp Schmitt
A visual history of artificial neural networks from 1943 to 2020