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Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus
Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

March 29 2024, 2:47pm | Comments
Bookmark The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of 'model collapse' as AI trains…
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Today's AI is artificial artificial artificial intelligence • The Register
Workers hired via crowdsource services like Amazon Mechanical Turk are using large language models to complete their tasks – which could have negative knock-on effects on AI models in the future.…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 23 2022, 3:33am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 22 2022, 11:33pm | Comments
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Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. We believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology.

September 15 2022, 2:33am | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus | Science Connected
Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

April 13 2022, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud | The MIT…
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech | WIRED…
Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life
“If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…
There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | Good for Google, Bad for America - The New York…
At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? Mr. Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor.

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation
Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

May 14 2019, 10:58pm | Comments
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February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Data Archive Infrastructure 2018 – Shannon Mattern | The New…
Our semester will be divided into four units: Epistemological Architectures (Weeks 3-5), Epistemological Apparatae (Weeks 6-8), Human Subjects + Publics (Weeks 10-11), and Collections + Content (Weeks 12-14)

September 1 2018, 10:09am | Comments
Bookmark Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic
A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Big Brother’s Blind Spot | Joanne McNeil
Netflix believes, algorithmically at least, that I am the kind of person who likes to watch “Dark TV Shows Featuring a Strong Female Lead.” This picksome genre is never one that…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine
From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments
Bookmark On Automation and Free Time - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
In “Fragment on Machines,” Marx made the case that with investment in automated technology, which he called fixed capital, capitalism is able to reduce necessary labor time and increase both surplus…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by…
At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size,…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…
There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Bookmark Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer…
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments

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