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I found myself staring at a computer screen, my face blurred and tracked by a green rectangle that followed me everywhere I moved. Behind the screen, a pre-recorded video showed similar rectangles

“An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to ‘quit their jobs’ and follow it.”

Climate-impacting emissions are being released from data centres using off-grid generators.

Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance, and flexible education. It is published by International Council for Open and Distance Education - ICDE Web of Science (ESCI) Impact Factor for 2023 is 0,9; ranked 457 out of 759 in Education and Educational Sciences in Q3. Scopus Cite Score is 3.5; ranked 453 out of 1543 in Education category in Q2 and 72 out of 2801 in Library and Information Sciences category in Q2. Facts and Figures: 2024 article acceptance rate is 33%, rejection rate is 67% (13% desk rejections - 54% rejections after review). While the number of days for acceptance is 44, the number of days for rejection is 16.

A list of awesome AI in libraries, archives, and museum collections from around the world 🕶️ - AI4LAM/awesome-ai4lam

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How news organizations are using AI in good and bad ways, and what lessons we can draw from those examples.

A new study claims that the growing water demand from AI and data centers could threaten China's water supply.

Synthetic Media in Networked Image Cultures Lecture by Roland Meyer Tue May 14, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München While the initial hype surrounding AI image synthesis models such as Dall-E, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion is fading, their massive impact on networked image cultu

As fascinating and alarming as generative AI may be, it doesn't have much practical use yet.

Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the introduction of

Learning from Librarians, Libraries and Library Science Inside the Seattle Public Library, photo copyright Emily M. Bender 2019 By Emily Yesterday I posted...

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

the paper really should be called "People who don't give a shit one way or another react ambivalently to output of billion-dollar machine designed by hucksters to trick people into thinking its outputs are plausible exemplars of textual artifacts in a specified genre" (the study participants were crowd-sourced online and paid less than a living wage)

If left unchallenged, political deep fake videos could have profound impacts on Australian elections.

AI-driven deepfakes & disinformation threaten the 2024 US election, raising fears of voter manipulation, surveillance, & election integrity

Suuri osa Suomen kaupungeista ja kunnista käyttää tai suunnittelee pian käyttävänsä viestinnässään tekoälypohjaisia työkaluja. Kuntaliiton kyselyyn vastanneista 182 kunnasta 35 prosenttia käyttää ja 22 prosenttia suunnittelee ryhtyvänsä käyttämään tekoälyä kunnan viestinnässä. Tieto selviää Kuntaliiton toteuttamasta kuntaviestintäkyselystä, joka toteutetaan kahden vuoden välein.

A.I. company Art Recognition has identified as many as 40 artworks listed on eBay as fake, including pieces supposedly by Renoir and Monet.

Moderna x OpenAI = Best Case, a Nothingburger By Emily I don't do predictions, but I do spend a good bit of time these days pondering how things might play...

ELEVENLABS IS BUILDING AN ARMY OF VOICE CLONES A tiny start-up has made some of the most convincing AI voices. Are its creators ready for th...

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

“Inanimate Species” by Joana Moll on June 13, 2024 at Hidden Layers - AI & Design Conference at Köln International School of Design, TH Köln In…

Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?

We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

By now, everyone knows that the normally smooth functioning world of information and communication is not to be trusted or taken for granted. Designers and researchers devise methods, protocols, check

Huge data centres built for generative AI will generate millions of tonnes of electronic waste by 2030, the equivalent of discarding billions of smartphones each year, a study suggests.

Social media these days features a whole lot of weird race and IQ graphs to support racist conspiracy theories. This stuff has long been funded and promoted by rich racists. Angela Saini’s excellen…

The future of photography is no longer defined by the medium itself, but by AI. AI image generators have internalised the photographic visual language and can generate it synthetically as “promptography”. What does this mean for the relationship between photography and promptography? Which skills do I need as a photographer, which as a promptographer? Where

The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.