Search Here ….

Tags

affect AI AI STORIES alumni Blogging book ChatGPT conferences data analysis digital art electronic literature ELMCIP emoji environmental art exhibition flies Gephi gestures history lip-syncing machine vision marxism musical.ly network analysis neural networks norsk open access publication publications quantified self research science fiction self-representation self-tracking selfies Snapchat social media Surveillance talks teaching Transmediale trip report twitter UiB visualisation
Uncategorised

halfbakery

JillPost a Comment

Have you come across the Halfbakery? They collect, critique and vote on half-baked ideas, fictitious inventions. The Film Noir Home, for instance:

A very ‘wired’ home which knows what you’re doing and uses voice synthesis to announce, in the first person, what you are doing. Then to make your life seem like Film Noir, all you have to do is to wear dark sunglasses so that everything looks a bit murky.

For example, you wake up in the night and go and get a glass of water. As you fill your glass from the kitchen tap, a dark, gravelly voice announces “It was late at night and I couldn’t sleep – I was thirsty so I went to get a glass of water”.

One of the commentators suggests an extension package for a daytime serial effect, which given the time and effort I might have been able to relate to Elouise’s recent post on blogs, time and closure:

When you walk in the door, a voice says “When we last saw our hero…” When you leave it says “To be continued…”

There are, of course, nights where my brain does this with no wiring at all. Tonight might well turn out to be one of them.

Discover more from Jill Walker Rettberg

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave A Comment

Recommended Posts

A row of knowledge workers operate sewing machines producing piles of spreadsheets and reports.
AI and algorithmic culture AI STORIES

Språk er makt. Ikke la KI ta den makten fra deg.

Readers who don’t read Norwegian: sorry. This is in Norwegian because it is commenting on a current debate in Norwegian media. Asle Tojes debattinnlegg «får KI-alarmen til å gå,» skriver Petter Bae Brandtzæg, og jeg er enig. Toje sier riktignok nei, han har ikke brukt KI. Han «har kvitteringer,» skriver han, teksten tar […]

Five people on a stage debating
AI and algorithmic culture Algorithmic bias

Debating AI with politicians at Samfundet

I spent Wednesday evening at the famous Studentersamfundet in Trondheim, debating AI with three Norwegian members of parliament, Karianne Tung, who is Norway’s Minister for Digitization, Simen Velle, a representative for FrP, and Hege Bae Nylund, a representative for Rødt. The debate was expertly led by Liva Flo. It’s always […]