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Models All The Way Down
Models All The Way Down
LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset used to train AI models such as Stable Diffusion. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. In this visual investigation, we follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its contents, implications and entanglements.
·knowingmachines.org·
Models All The Way Down
Generative UI and Outcome-Oriented Design
Generative UI and Outcome-Oriented Design
GenUI promises highly personalized interfaces — a move from designing for many to tailoring for the individual.
·nngroup.com·
Generative UI and Outcome-Oriented Design
AI Is Taking Water From the Desert
AI Is Taking Water From the Desert
New data centers are springing up every week. Can the Earth sustain them?
·theatlantic.com·
AI Is Taking Water From the Desert
Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers
Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers
This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, 'Would You Rather' videos, and deep sea story spam come from.
·404media.co·
Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers
What comes after big data?
What comes after big data?
A new push to carve data collection out of the humanitarian tech stack.
·restofworld.org·
What comes after big data?
Software Is Beating The World
Software Is Beating The World
Editor’s Note: Due to the length of this piece, you may need to click a button to read the whole thing in your email. Every single stupid, loathsome, and ugly story in tech is a result of the fundamentally broken relationship between venture capital and technology. And, as with many things, it started with a blog.
·wheresyoured.at·
Software Is Beating The World
Co-creating with Nature
Co-creating with Nature
Over the past year or so, I’ve been working with The Gaian Way to design an artistic calendar to visually represent time as the local ecosystem experiences it. Inspired by a similar effort in Puerto Rico, the calendar looks at twenty common tree and shrub species in southern New England,1 and depicts a year of their collective activity as colorful rings of leaves, flowers and fruit, as well as the primary forces that drive them: daylight and precipitation.
·resilience.org·
Co-creating with Nature
The State of the Culture, 2024
The State of the Culture, 2024
Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
·honest-broker.com·
The State of the Culture, 2024
Let ChatGPT Run Your Tinder This Valentine's Day
Let ChatGPT Run Your Tinder This Valentine's Day
Datings apps are totally cool if you have AI writing your love messages. Match Group might even make some AI chatbots itself in 2024.
·gizmodo.com·
Let ChatGPT Run Your Tinder This Valentine's Day
Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
Apple’s Vision Pro headset suggests one possible future—but there are others.
·newyorker.com·
Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
"Owning our own work, and being beholden to no one but our readers and colleagues — as opposed to say, investors, venture capitalists, or out-of-touch executives — feels like the future."
·niemanlab.org·
Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
How to rewild yourself | Psyche Guides
How to rewild yourself | Psyche Guides
You didn’t evolve to live in this techno-industrialised world. Find health and happiness by embracing your wild nature
·psyche.co·
How to rewild yourself | Psyche Guides
World sees first 12 months above 1.5C warming level: climate monitor
World sees first 12 months above 1.5C warming level: climate monitor
Earth has endured 12 consecutive months of temperatures 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial era for the first time on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, in what scientists called a "warning to humanity".
·phys.org·
World sees first 12 months above 1.5C warming level: climate monitor
AI Countergovernance
AI Countergovernance
Blair Attard-Frost on resistance to artificial intelligence, backlashes against the governance of AI systems, and possibilities for bottom-up AI governance led by communities and workers.
Blair Attard-Frost
·midnightsunmag.ca·
AI Countergovernance
Designing Friction
Designing Friction
A fundamental design principle for techno optimists. How we need to move towards friction in digital culture. By Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters
·designingfriction.com·
Designing Friction
Why we endorsed the US AI Environmental Impacts Act - Green Web Foundation
Why we endorsed the US AI Environmental Impacts Act - Green Web Foundation
Yesterday, Senator Ed Markey introduced the first legislation to explicitly refer to the environmental impacts of AI , together with several other members of Congress in the USA. Earlier in January we had been approached for feedback about a draft version of the bill, and we were happy to publicly endorse it. In this post… Why we endorsed the US AI Environmental Impacts Act
·thegreenwebfoundation.org·
Why we endorsed the US AI Environmental Impacts Act - Green Web Foundation
An AI Society
An AI Society
Social scientists and humanities experts explore how to harness the interaction, revealing urgent avenues for research and policy.
·issues.org·
An AI Society
The Cult of AI
The Cult of AI
How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.
·rollingstone.com·
The Cult of AI