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Sonja Rattay on OpenAI & Ethics / Commercial Success
As a critical researcher of AI myself and experience as entrepreneur I know how hard it is to navigate the trade offs between surviving in the market and being…
A CRITICAL FIELD GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS
Maybe you’re an engineer creating a new machine vision system to track birds. You might be a journalist using social media data to research Costa Rican households. You could be a researcher who stumbled upon your university’s archive of handwritten census cards from 1939. Or a designer creating a chatbot that relies on large language models like GPT-3. Perhaps you’re an artist experimenting with visual style combinations using DALLE-2. Or maybe you’re an activist with an urgent story that needs telling, and you’re searching for the right dataset to tell it.
re:publica 2018 – Mushon Zer-Aviv: The Political Tragedy of Data-Driven-Determinism
Find out more at: https://18.re-publica.com/node/24891Polls and predictions could not foresee the wide appeal of voting for Brexit, for Trump, against the pr...
SXSW Special Jury Award Winning documentary ANOTHER BODY follows American college student Taylor’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online. She dives headfirst into the underground world of deepfakes, and discovers a growing culture of men terrorizing women—influencers, classmates, friends.
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
To understand the divide between AI boosters and doomers, one must unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL.
At the heart of TESCREALism is a “techno-utopian” vision of the future. It anticipates a time when advanced technologies enable humanity to accomplish things like: producing radical abundance, reengineering ourselves, becoming immortal, colonizing the universe and creating a sprawling “post-human” civilization among the stars full of trillions and trillions of people. The most straightforward way to realize this utopia is by building superintelligent AGI.
On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.Za...