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• Bookmark Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press

  Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination…

  September 7 2024, 7:12am | Comments

• Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science

  Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the…

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• Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…

  You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | 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 AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.

  Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

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• 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…

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• 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…

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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.

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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• Metafilter MeFi: It's not a glitch with the video, it's datamoshing (SLYT) "Datamoshing is a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don't. It's most noticeable between cuts and across motion. Datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to…

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• Bookmark towardsdatascience.com

  This write-up re-introduces the concept of entropy from different perspectives with a focus on its importance in machine learning, probabilistic programming, and information theory.

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• Bookmark towardsdatascience.com

  This write-up re-introduces the concept of entropy from different perspectives with a focus on its importance in machine learning, probabilistic programming, and information theory.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

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• Bookmark A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution |…

  Charles Darwin thought of evolution as an incremental process, like the patient creep of glaciers or the march of continental plates.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | 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 A potential escape from Roko’s basilisk (Interconnected)

  Earth’s Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe. Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and…

  January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI)…

  Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a…

  January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark OpenAI makes GPT-3 generally available through its API | VentureBeat

  Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more

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• Podcast Cache Art And Obsolescence Podcast - Episode 005: Glenn Wharton — Art and…

  From Small Data Industries, this is the Art and Obsolescence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Fino-Radin, and on this episode I chat with art conservator Glenn Wharton. https://www.artandobsolescence.com/episodes/005-glenn-wharton

  September 28 2021, 5:23am | 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

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  And then the datamosh tears into it like jackals.

  

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• Bookmark The Next Big Cheap — Real Life

  Onstage at the November 20 Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang used one of his precious minutes of speaking time to casually claim that “data is…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | 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

• Instagram Close-up of the most #PostInternet section of the #ImageNet dataset

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• 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

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• Bookmark Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press

  Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination…

  September 7 2024, 7:12am | Comments

• Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science

  Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the…

  July 30 2024, 9:32am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 22 2023, 6:27pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 22 2023, 4:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2023, 4:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…

  You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | 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 AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.

  Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

  February 5 2023, 7:33am | 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 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

• Syllabus Cache datasociety.net

  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

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: It's not a glitch with the video, it's datamoshing (SLYT) "Datamoshing is a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don't. It's most noticeable between cuts and across motion. Datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to…

  June 14 2022, 7:13am | Comments

• Bookmark towardsdatascience.com

  This write-up re-introduces the concept of entropy from different perspectives with a focus on its importance in machine learning, probabilistic programming, and information theory.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark towardsdatascience.com

  This write-up re-introduces the concept of entropy from different perspectives with a focus on its importance in machine learning, probabilistic programming, and information theory.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution |…

  Charles Darwin thought of evolution as an incremental process, like the patient creep of glaciers or the march of continental plates.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | 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 A potential escape from Roko’s basilisk (Interconnected)

  Earth’s Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe. Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and…

  January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI)…

  Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a…

  January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark OpenAI makes GPT-3 generally available through its API | VentureBeat

  Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more

  November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Art And Obsolescence Podcast - Episode 005: Glenn Wharton — Art and…

  From Small Data Industries, this is the Art and Obsolescence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Fino-Radin, and on this episode I chat with art conservator Glenn Wharton. https://www.artandobsolescence.com/episodes/005-glenn-wharton

  September 28 2021, 5:23am | 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

• Twitter

  And then the datamosh tears into it like jackals.

  

  December 22 2020, 5:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Next Big Cheap — Real Life

  Onstage at the November 20 Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang used one of his precious minutes of speaking time to casually claim that “data is…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | 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

• Instagram Close-up of the most #PostInternet section of the #ImageNet dataset

  October 18 2019, 6:29am | 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

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