AI and algorithmic culture

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ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values

Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot released by OpenAI, and I’ve been fascinated by how much it does well and how it still gets a lot wrong. ChatGPT is a foundation model, that […]

AI and algorithmic culture

Generating research papers reveals our clichés

A few weeks ago Meta released Galactica, a language model that generates scientific papers based on a prompt you type in. They put it online and invited people to try it out, but had to remove it after just three days after […]

Using machine learning to find the unpredictable

This spring when I was learning R, I came across a paper by Anders Kristian Munk, Asger Gehrt Olesen and Mathieu Jacomy about using machine learning in anthropology – not to classify big data, as machine learning is often used, but to […]

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DALL-E and human-AI assemblages

Have you tried playing with the mini version of DALL-E yet? It’s fun! What DALL-E does is generate wonderful images from written prompts, using a neural network trained on images scraped from the internet that have English language captions attached to them. […]

AI and algorithmic culture Presentations

My talk on caring AIs in recent sci-fi novels

I’m giving a talk at an actual f2f academic conference today, Critical Borders, Radical Re(visions) of AI, in Cambridge. I was particularly excited to see this conference because it’s organised by the people who edited AI Narratives A History of Imaginative Thinking […]

Academia AI and algorithmic culture

Google is your first reader: How can I write an academic paper that machines can easily read?

Put your main concept in the first part of your title, not in the subtitle. Use the format “X is [simple definition]” in your abstract. Use images and be aware that the first image will be used in many previews, so consider […]

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AI and algorithmic culture

ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values

Generating research papers reveals our clichés

Using machine learning to find the unpredictable

DALL-E and human-AI assemblages

My talk on caring AIs in recent sci-fi novels

Google is your first reader: How can I write an academic paper that machines can easily read?

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jill/txt

AI and algorithmic culture

ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values

Generating research papers reveals our clichés

Using machine learning to find the unpredictable

DALL-E and human-AI assemblages

My talk on caring AIs in recent sci-fi novels

Google is your first reader: How can I write an academic paper that machines can easily read?