Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains | Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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.
Putting the power of AlphaFold into the world’s hands
When we announced AlphaFold 2 last December, it was hailed as a solution to the 50-year old protein folding problem. Last week, we published the scientific paper and source code explaining how we created this highly innovative system, and today we’re sharing high-quality predictions for the shape of every single protein in the human body, as well as for the proteins of 20 additional organisms that scientists rely on for their research.
Nel blu dipinto di blu; or the “anaesthetics” of stock images of AI - Better Images of AI
What if a major issue with AI stock images is the abundant use of the color blue in the background? Instead of promoting access and forms of agonism in the debate about AI, the blue has the opposite consequence of “putting them to sleep,” developing forms of resignation in the general public.… Continue reading Nel blu dipinto di blu; or the “anaesthetics” of stock images of AI →
From Black Box to Algorithmic Veil: Why the image of the black box is harmful to the regulation of AI - Better Images of AI
The black box narrative was originally intended as a ‘wake-up call’ to direct our attention towards certain risks of algorithmic automation. But it also threatens to obscure our view of the people behind algorithmic systems and their value judgements.… Continue reading From Black Box to Algorithmic Veil: Why the image of the black box is harmful to the regulation of AI →
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Costs of AI - Political Economy Research Centre
Silicon Valley utopians imagine AI solutions to ecological crisis, while being oblivious to the real material and ecological harms their fantasies wreak. Jessica Silva was killed by the Mexican National Guard while protesting against water diversions to the United States. In 2020, long drought
My new book: Big Data. Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about A.I. . Order here . What does this topic have to do with you? Designers stand at the verge of a great professional opportunity: artificial intelligence. This technology enables computers to study the world and make predictions using unstructured data. We can speak to machines—and machines can…
Experiential AI is proposed as a new research agenda in which artists and
scientists come together to dispel the mystery of algorithms and make their
mechanisms vividly apparent. It addresses the challenge of finding novel ways
of opening up the field of artificial intelligence to greater transparency and
collaboration between human and machine. The hypothesis is that art can mediate
between computer code and human comprehension to overcome the limitations of
explanations in and for AI systems. Artists can make the boundaries of systems
visible and offer novel ways to make the reasoning of AI transparent and
decipherable. Beyond this, artistic practice can explore new configurations of
humans and algorithms, mapping the terrain of inter-agencies between people and
machines. This helps to viscerally understand the complex causal chains in
environments with AI components, including questions about what data to collect
or who to collect it about, how the algorithms are chosen, commissioned and
configured or how humans are conditioned by their participation in algorithmic
processes.