Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
I just found a student lab full of eMacs in the basement of our building. I have no idea how its existence has managed to escape my attention.
Such a lovely sight in a world of PCs running Windows everywhere.
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Synthetic media is a current popular term for AI-generated videos, texts and images. I think the first use was only a few years ago in 2018, but I couldn’t find an overview of its use so thought I’d cobble one together here, mostly because I like Elena Pilipets and her […]
OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 (USD) a month for an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” – apparently some people will pay more for robots than people. At […]
This is my original Norwegian draft of an essay published in the Danish foreign policy magazine Udenrigs today as part of a special issue on AI and foreign policy. I argue that AI is influencing the way we tell stories, and more seriously, that there is a risk of this […]
In 2022 I learned about FAIR data, the movement to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible. One of UiB’s brilliant research librarians, Jenny Ostrup, patiently helped me make the dataset from the Machine Vision project FAIR in 2022 – I wrote a little bit about that in my […]
Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed to asked if we recorded it, and yes we did! Here you go! James and Jussi’s books […]
Finally I can share what I’ve been working on! I absolutely loved writing this book, taking the time to dig deep into histories, ideas and theories that I think really help understand how machine vision technologies like facial recognition and image generation are impacting us today. I wanted the book […]
Alina
Its funny..
A year ago my dad bought a PC laptop (to be able to check how his website designs look on PC’s). We called that thingy Alien. And it really WAS an alien, lonely at our home, surrounded by 3 Macs..
ghani
I had a similar experience, Jill — my Uni has a huge “barn” with 500+ PCs, and suddenly this week, 5 eMacs crept into the center of it. It’s like a little oasis. The strange thing is, they’re not networked. Why wouldn’t you network a machine when it’s as simple as plugging it in?
mjones
It’s my considered opinion that all-PC environments are make-work projects for IT departments.