AI and algorithmic culture

Visiting OpenAI

Last night I attended the OpenAI Forum Welcome Reception at OpenAI’s new offices in San Francisco. The Forum is a recently launched initiative from OpenAI that is meant to be “a community designed to unite thoughtful contributors from a diverse array of […]

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AI and algorithmic culture Machine Vision

Four visual registers for imaginaries of machine vision

I’m thrilled to announce another publication from our European Research Council (ERC)-funded research project on Machine Vision: Gabriele de Setaand Anya Shchetvina‘s paper analysing how Chinese AI companies visually present machine vision technologies. They find that the Chinese machine vision imaginary is global, blue and competitive. […]

AI and algorithmic culture

Do people flock to talks about ChatGPT because they are scared?

Whenever I give talks about ChatGPT and LLMs, whether to ninth graders, businesses or journalists, I meet people who are hungry for information, who really want to understand this new technology. I’ve interpreted this as interest and a need to understand – […]

AI and algorithmic culture

How to use ChatGPT to get past writer’s block

Having your own words processed and restated can help you improve your thinking and your writing. That’s one reason why talking with someone about your ideas can help you clarify your thoughts. ChatGPT is certainly no replacement for a knowledgable friend or colleague, […]

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AI and algorithmic culture

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 […]

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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 […]

AI and algorithmic culture Machine Vision

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. […]

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AI and algorithmic culture

Visiting OpenAI

Four visual registers for imaginaries of machine vision

Do people flock to talks about ChatGPT because they are scared?

How to use ChatGPT to get past writer’s block

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

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AI and algorithmic culture

Visiting OpenAI

Four visual registers for imaginaries of machine vision

Do people flock to talks about ChatGPT because they are scared?

How to use ChatGPT to get past writer’s block

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