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Resisting Deterministic Thinking. AI is here and it will change… | by danah boyd | Apr, 2023 | Medium
Resisting Deterministic Thinking. AI is here and it will change… | by danah boyd | Apr, 2023 | Medium
I just returned from a three month sabbatical spent mostly offline diving through history and I feel like I’ve returned to an alien planet full of serious utopian and dystopian thinking swirling simultaneously. I find myself nodding along because both the best case and worst case scenarios could happen. But also cringing because the passion behind these declarations has no room for nuance. Everything feels extreme and fully of binaries. I am truly astonished by the the deeply entrenched deterministic thinking that feels pervasive in these conversations. Deterministic thinking is a blinkering force, the very opposite of rationality even though many people who espouse deterministic thinking believe themselves to be hyper rational. Deterministic thinking tends to seed polarization and distrust as people become entrenched in their vision of the future. Returning to the modern world, I’m finding myself frantically waving my hands in a desperate attempt to get those around me to take a deep breath (or maybe 100 of them). Given that few people can see my hand movements from my home office, I’m going to pretend like it’s 2004 and blog my thoughts in the hopes that this post might calm at least one person down. Or, maybe, if I’m lucky, it’ll be fed into an AI model and add a tiny bit of nuance.
#ai#ideas#future
·zephoria.medium.com·
Resisting Deterministic Thinking. AI is here and it will change… | by danah boyd | Apr, 2023 | Medium
Mozilla.ai
Mozilla.ai
A new wave of AI is poised to transform the technologies we use everyday. Trust must be at the core of how we develop and deploy AI, everyday, all the time. It is not an optional ‘add-on’. Mozilla has long championed a world where AI is more trustworthy, investing in startups, advocating for laws, and mobilizing the public to focus on human agency and accountability in AI. Now we’re taking the next step: creating a company — and gathering a community — to build a trustworthy open source AI ecosystem. Mozilla.ai’s mission is to make developing trustworthy AI apps and products easy. To start we will focus on developing tools to build safety and transparency into the heart of recommendation systems and generative AI technologies.
#ai#ethics#mozilla
·mozilla.ai·
Mozilla.ai
Content Partnerships Hub =
Content Partnerships Hub =
The Content Partnerships Hub is a proposed Wikimedia hub, for affiliates and volunteers who are interested in working with partners across the world, to make content freely available on the Wikimedia platforms. The Wikimedia Strategic Direction establishes that by 2030 “Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge.” But our movement cannot succeed in isolation. We need to work with friends, movements, existing and potential partners across the globe, if we want to make the Wikimedia platforms the obvious choice for making knowledge free and available. The Content Partnerships Hub aims to improve the Wikimedia movement’s work with content partners by providing new services, missing infrastructure and support coordination efforts. Exactly what this work will entail will be decided in an inclusive way together with the stakeholders in the Wikimedia movement.
#data#wikimedia
·meta.wikimedia.org·
Content Partnerships Hub =
Flash Player Emulator 2023
Flash Player Emulator 2023
Play Flash anytime, even in 2023 and beyond, using an emulator. Want to fix "Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported" and "This plugin is not supported" error messages? This extension will remove those messages and allow you to play Flash in any website with a single click. It's easy to use: Click once and that's it! The extension does all the work for you. No need to download extra apps, use old plugin versions, or be without your favorite games.
#flash#browser
·chrome.google.com·
Flash Player Emulator 2023
Thoughts on a Crazy Week in AI News - by Melanie Mitchell
Thoughts on a Crazy Week in AI News - by Melanie Mitchell
Ultimately, to figure out what we really need to worry about, we need better AI literacy among the general public and especially policy-makers.  We need better transparency on how these large AI systems work, how they are trained, and how they are evaluated.  We need independent evaluation, rather than relying on the unreproducible, “just trust us” results in technical reports from companies that profit from these technologies. We need new approaches to the scientific understanding of such models and government support for such research. Indeed, as some have argued, we need a “Manhattan Project of intense research” on AI’s abilities, limitations, trustworthiness, and interpretability, where the investigation and results are open to anyone.  What would be a good name for such a project? Is the name “Open AI” taken?
#ai
·aiguide.substack.com·
Thoughts on a Crazy Week in AI News - by Melanie Mitchell
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT—and then to explore why it is that it can do so well in producing what we might consider to be meaningful text. I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. (And the essence of what I’ll say applies just as well to other current “large language models” [LLMs] as to ChatGPT.)
#ai
·writings.stephenwolfram.com·
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Mastodon instances
Mastodon instances
Let me help you choose an instance.,I will ask you a few questions about your needs, then I will show you instances that best suit these. Or browse instances to find one that appeals to you.
#fediverse#mastodon#search#social
·instances.social·
Mastodon instances
In Memoriam Flickr Accounts – Flickr Help Center
In Memoriam Flickr Accounts – Flickr Help Center
You can apply to have the account of a Flickr member who has passed away placed in a protected "in memoriam" state. In memoriam accounts will preserve all public content in a deceased member’s account, even if their Pro subscription lapses. The account’s username will be updated to reflect the “in memoriam” status and login for the account will be locked to prevent anyone from signing in.
#flickr#reclaim
·flickrhelp.com·
In Memoriam Flickr Accounts – Flickr Help Center
Openness and Education: A Beginner’s Guide | GO-GN
Openness and Education: A Beginner’s Guide | GO-GN
Produced by Katy Jordan, Martin Weller, Vivien Rolfe and Irwin DeVries, this document builds on recent research undertaken to trace the history of openness in education, and maps the different ways of thinking about open education that have come to bear on the field we see today. Mapping of themes across time aims to provides those new to the field with a useful overview of the history and introduction to the concept of openness, and ways to explore the literature further. Each section of this document will summarise the nature of one of the themes, and its relationship to the broader network. Additionally, the document provides an annotated bibliography, through summaries of five of the most influential publications across a range of perspectives in each theme.
#openeducation#research
·go-gn.net·
Openness and Education: A Beginner’s Guide | GO-GN
The Art of Community: Cultivating Online Connections | by Laura Hilliger | Mar, 2023 | We Are Open Co-op
The Art of Community: Cultivating Online Connections | by Laura Hilliger | Mar, 2023 | We Are Open Co-op
Nurturing a healthy online community takes personality, purpose, and persistence. In the world of Open Source, it’s well known that products and projects with a healthy, vibrant community withstand the test of time. For some reason, though, in the ever-expanding digital landscape, “community” is a hard concept to understand.
#community
·blog.weareopen.coop·
The Art of Community: Cultivating Online Connections | by Laura Hilliger | Mar, 2023 | We Are Open Co-op
In His Largest LEGO Work Yet, Ai Weiwei Recreates One of Claude Monet's Most Famous Paintings — Colossal
In His Largest LEGO Work Yet, Ai Weiwei Recreates One of Claude Monet's Most Famous Paintings — Colossal
Known for incorporating recognizable, everyday objects into monumental sculptures, Ai Weiwei (previously) has created acclaimed installations using bicycles, life vests, and seeds and flowers made of porcelain that often challenge political issues such as the social unrest of his native China, the global refugee crisis, and themes of liberty and freedom of speech. Since 2014, he has utilized LEGO as a medium but not without some controversy along the way due to the political nature of his work. Now, Ai has completed his largest LEGO piece to date in a recreation of “Water Lilies,” one of French Impressionist artist Claude Monet’s most iconic artworks. Monet’s Water Lilies series was inspired by the artist’s garden in Giverny, France, featuring a foot bridge over a pond teeming with wildlife. This idyllic setting was the design and creation of Monet himself, who at the turn of the 20th century had the nearby River Epte partially diverted in order to bring his vision to life. Ai challenges our perceptions of natural beauty and reality, replacing brush strokes with plastic bricks redolent of digital pixels, using a more saturated color palette, and embedding shadows that evoke a hint of unease.
#art
·thisiscolossal.com·
In His Largest LEGO Work Yet, Ai Weiwei Recreates One of Claude Monet's Most Famous Paintings — Colossal
Saying goodbye - Paper.li blog
Saying goodbye - Paper.li blog
After 13 years of providing our service, we have decided to sunset Paper.li as of April 20, 2023. While this decision was not easy, it is time for us to say goodbye.  We want to express our deepest gratitude for your support and loyalty over the years. We could not have achieved what we have over the past decade without the amazing support of our community. It has been an incredible journey together, and we are honored to have had the opportunity to serve you.  We want to remind you that until April 20, 2023, papers will remain accessible. After that date, papers will no longer be available, and all data will be permanently deleted. 
#dyingweb
·blog.paper.li·
Saying goodbye - Paper.li blog
DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review
DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review
After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year. The site will remain active until April 10, and the editorial team is still working on reviews and looking forward to delivering some of our best-ever content. Everyone on our staff was a reader and fan of DPReview before working here, and we’re grateful for the communities that formed around the site. Thank you for your support over the years, and we hope you’ll join us in the coming weeks as we celebrate this journey.
#dyingweb#photography
·dpreview.com·
DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review
‘Humans of New York’ Founder Brandon Stanton on Serial Obsessions, How to Build a Sensibility, the Dignity-Conferring Power of Listening, and the Value of Time – The Marginalian
‘Humans of New York’ Founder Brandon Stanton on Serial Obsessions, How to Build a Sensibility, the Dignity-Conferring Power of Listening, and the Value of Time – The Marginalian
In the summer of 2010, Brandon Stanton found himself a laid off bond trader with little more than a camera, a nascent love of photography, and a desperate need to reorient his life. In just a few years, he became one of the most vitalizing visual storytellers and humanists of our time through Humans of New York — his labor-of-love project, which his mother first saw as “a thinly veiled attempt to avoid employment” and which went on to become a massive cultural phenomenon that moves millions of hearts daily. It has transcended photography and blossomed into something much larger, landing Brandon at the White House on multiple occasions and moving the cultural dial on issues ranging from public education to interfaith dialogue to the most urgent frontiers of politics. In his interview on Debbie Millman’s Design Matters — one of the world’s first and finest podcasts — Brandon traces the unlikely path that led him to Humans of New York and its global emanations. What unfolds is a wonderfully wide-ranging conversation about serial obsessions, depression, how community college changed his life, why he spent a year reading 100 pages of great literature a day, what it takes to build a creative sensibility, the value of time not as a means but as an end in itself, the dignity-conferring power of listening to strangers’ stories, and the rich, complex, immensely nuanced nature of the human experience.
#art#photography#podcast#creativity#Daily
·themarginalian.org·
‘Humans of New York’ Founder Brandon Stanton on Serial Obsessions, How to Build a Sensibility, the Dignity-Conferring Power of Listening, and the Value of Time – The Marginalian
The Magic and Logic of Color: How Josef Albers Revolutionized Visual Culture and the Art of Seeing – The Marginalian
The Magic and Logic of Color: How Josef Albers Revolutionized Visual Culture and the Art of Seeing – The Marginalian
Hardly anyone has accomplished more in revolutionizing the art of seeing than German-born American artist, poet, printmaker, and educator Josef Albers (March 19, 1888–March 25, 1976), as celebrated for his iconic abstract paintings as he was for his vibrant wit and spellbinding presence as a classroom performer. In 1963, he launched into the world what would become the most influential exploration of the art, science, psychology, practical application, and magic of color — an experiment, radical and brave at the time, seeking to cultivate a new way of studying and understanding color through experience and trial-and-error rather than through didactic, theoretical dogma. Half a century later, Interaction of Color (public library), with its illuminating visual exercises and mind-bending optical illusions, remains an indispensable blueprint to the art of seeing.
#color#ideas#teaching
·themarginalian.org·
The Magic and Logic of Color: How Josef Albers Revolutionized Visual Culture and the Art of Seeing – The Marginalian
Tel / Mastodon counter · GitLab
Tel / Mastodon counter · GitLab
Gets Mastodon statuses data based on a defined hashtag and provides a clean HTML file with tables and graphs (who authored, who most replied to others, other hashtags, who was replied to).
#mastodon#Visualization
·gitlab.com·
Tel / Mastodon counter · GitLab
I am an Artist | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
I am an Artist | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
The most reassuring thing about being an artist is that you are one as soon as you make your first mark, and yet you will never become the one you hope to be. To be an artist is a start line, not an end one. I cannot draw people. Or hands. Or faces, which, i guess, are part of people too. I can draw boats, landscapes, and trees.
#art#creativity
·julianstodd.wordpress.com·
I am an Artist | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
Generative AI and the Potential for (Anti) Social Learning | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
Generative AI and the Potential for (Anti) Social Learning | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
As ChatGPT and it’s comrades take the world by storm, amazing and delighting us with their natural language and peculiar quirks, it is no surprise that both hype, and hyperbole are ripe, alongside opportunism and marketing. But make no mistake, a deployable technology with virtually no barrier to usability, a technology that is veiled behind that most human of things – conversations – will change almost everything.
#ai#learning#ideas
·julianstodd.wordpress.com·
Generative AI and the Potential for (Anti) Social Learning | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by - Journal of Interactive Media in Education
From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by - Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Although automation is not a novelty, high hopes are currently pinned on more and more ingenious devices built with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has become a key discussion point in the agendas of governments and multinational agencies, with particular interest in educational applications. This article explores parallels between ideas surrounding AI in education and conceptions proposed in the 17th century by Jan Amos Comenius, known as the father of modern education. Drawing upon illustrations from ongoing research that takes metaphor as its core analytical category, the piece assumes that metaphors are not mere stylistic elements, but strategic persuasive devices. Comenius’ dachography, a portmanteau coined in his 1657 Didactica Magna to describe an inclusive educational system, relies heavily on metaphors that suggest remarkable similarities with contemporary EdTech rhetoric, especially on AI-related developments. Whilst exemplifying that ideas and premises entailed in current discourses on EdTech may hark back to centuries-old ideas, the paper argues that, despite taking on varying, contextually situated linguistic expressions, underlying metaphors appear to have endured from Comenius’ time to support the advent of an educational system poised to automate teaching and, thus, dispense with a key part of his scheme: the teacher. In closing, the piece suggests that we may need to acknowledge the contingent nature of teaching and learning, perhaps accepting that key aspects of what makes us human may always resist engineering.
#ai#metaphor
·jime.open.ac.uk·
From Didachography to AI: Metaphors Teaching is Automated by - Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Will A.I. Steal All The Code And Take All The Jobs? | Hackaday
Will A.I. Steal All The Code And Take All The Jobs? | Hackaday
New technology often brings with it a bit of controversy. When considering stem cell therapies, self-driving cars, genetically modified organisms, or nuclear power plants, fears and concerns come to mind as much as, if not more than, excitement and hope for a brighter tomorrow. New technologies force us to evolve perspectives and establish new policies in hopes that we can maximize the benefits and minimize the risks. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is certainly no exception. The stakes, including our very position as Earth’s apex intellect, seem exceedingly weighty. Mathematician Irving Good’s oft-quoted wisdom that the “first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need make” describes a sword that cuts both ways. It is not entirely unreasonable to fear that the last invention we need to make might just be the last invention that we get to make.
#ai#coding#ethics#learning
·hackaday.com·
Will A.I. Steal All The Code And Take All The Jobs? | Hackaday
Volcanoes and Volcanologists (IDL) – Open.Ed
Volcanoes and Volcanologists (IDL) – Open.Ed
Volcanoes and Vulcanologists has been created as a teaching resource for the City of Edinburgh Council’s ‘Curiosity Club’, an Intervention Strategy initiative that is currently operating in Council schools. The interdisciplinary approach involves pupils in developing knowledge and skills through five separate lessons.
#oer#Science#volcano
·open.ed.ac.uk·
Volcanoes and Volcanologists (IDL) – Open.Ed
Essential Music Concerts From Home: Music Zoom (Internet Archive)
Essential Music Concerts From Home: Music Zoom (Internet Archive)
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive began hiring musicians to perform over Zoom at our biweekly staff meetings–a tradition that is still going strong. The Internet Archive Musiczoom Collection now boasts over 200 unique performances that span a breathtaking range of genres and styles, from classical piano to Appalachian fiddling to jazz fusion
#music
·archive.org·
Essential Music Concerts From Home: Music Zoom (Internet Archive)
The ultimate list of AI tools for creators | Descript
The ultimate list of AI tools for creators | Descript
there is a wide world of AI tools designed specifically to help specific kinds of creators free themselves from the tasks that slow them down and hamper their creativity. Are you a playwright who’s trying to come up with the next scene? Maybe a musician trying to mix up an overused chord progression? Or, ahem, a podcaster who needs to make a quick correction to something you already recorded? There are AI tools out there for you. Here's a list of AI tools for creators. Note that, while we call it the "ultimate" list (partly to get you to click on it), it's definitely not comprehensive; these tools are emerging and changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up. These are just the tools we've heard the most about, been the most curious about, and found the most useful so far. It should be plenty to get you started with AI, so dive in — and start putting the robots to work.
#ai
·descript.com·
The ultimate list of AI tools for creators | Descript