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Thoughts on prompts and search boxes

A new device allowed a paralyzed patient to "speak," spelling out full sentences in real-time with an error rate of about 8%.

Blog about survival in the world of technology and all this cyberpunk around

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While machine learning—computer programming designed for taxonomic patterning—offers useful insights into racism and racist behavior, a gap is present in the relationship between machine learning and its connection to the racial history of science and the Black lived experience.

A radical pedagogy notebook that parses the “experiments in study, collective learning, and unlearning” at JUNGE AKADEMIE’s AI Anarchies Autumn School.

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Unsurprisingly, the artistic and ethical shortcomings of AI image generators are tied to their dependence on capital and capitalism.

Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa display a pseudo-humanity that is heavily scripted by humans. What does that mean for our AI literacy?

This essay explore what infrastructures are needed to cultivate a more feminist, caring digital society.

Artists work for years on their portfolios but people can now make copycat images using programs like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.

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.

Demanding inclusive and radically diverse digital futures