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[Recorded May 16, 2024] Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy—even your safety. At the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. In NOVA's Secrets in Your Data, host Alok Patel explores these issues on a quest to understand what happens to all the da...

Soutenez Blast, nouveau média indépendant : https://www.blast-info.fr/soutenir Auteur en 1984 d’une thèse de doctorat sur « Les romans de Philip K. Dick », sous la direction de Fredric Jameson, peut-être le plus fondamental penseur de la SF contemporaine, il imagine entre 1984 et 1992 sa « Trilogie de la Côte Dorée », trois futurs possibles du Comté d’Orange, le territoire à la richesse la plus co...

How did an unknown Marxist scholar sell half a million copies of a book about degrowth communism in his homeland of Japan? And why is a complete transformation of our economic life necessary to save the planet?   Guest: Kohei Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, and the youngest-ever winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for scholarship in the Marxist tradition. His book is...

The United States Copyright Office and courts in many United States jurisdictions are struggling to address complex copyright issues related to the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Meanwhile, academic research using generative AI is proliferating at a fast pace and researchers still require legal guidance on which sources they may use, how they can train AI legally, and whether the...

Ross Anderson Interviewed by Elisabetta Mori for Archives of IT

Since the beginning of cinema, movies have held to the same format - a linear narrative, told the same way each time. Filmmaker Gary Hustwit wants to change all that. With his new documentary Eno, he’s broken the mold on movies. Hustwit has harnessed the power of generative AI to produce a movie you can never see twice. Through careful editing and groundbreaking software development, Hustwit and h...

Hey everybody! It's a rare public post! Now that we've announced this summer's Okkervil River / Antlers duo tour (which you guys heard about first), I thought this would be a good time to re-post the awesome conversation Peter Silberman and I had for "Uncontrollable Light," my patreon podcast series where I talk to fellow artists about all manner of interesting topics. In thi...

In this program, John Searle discusses the life and thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This is an episode from the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers with Bryan Magee. The rest of the series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8B-g03RivIMt7llh1cyEGV 00:00 Introduction 03:37 Picture Theory of Meaning 08:56 Meaning as Use 11:09 Family Resemblance 15:44 Language Games...

PLENARY SESSION Tuesday Keynote - AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s This keynote will look at the connections between where we are now and how we got here. Connecting the “Crypto Wars”, the role of encryption and privacy, and ultimately the hype of AI… all through the lens of Signal. Full text of Meredith's talk: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf Keynote Speaker: Meredith Whi...

Portuguese and Spanish language translations for SXSW 2024 Keynotes and Featured Sessions presented by Itaú. Designers bear the awkward and important responsibility of raising ethical AI concerns in their product-making circles alongside policymakers. Questioning how to advance the art, practice, and nature of creativity in this new era provides spectacular opportunities to fail, learn, grow. Abou...

Grace Blakeley is a writer, commentator and economist whose new book Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom is out on the 14th March. She came by JOE Towers to chat to us about neoliberal capitalism, the destruction of working-class power and how our brains have been rewired to accept mediocrity. Subscribe to our new podcast now, or you're a silly goos...

Taking us on a walk through the folds and furrows of her Oakland neighborhood, Jenny Odell steps into the age-old conversation between rocks and water, attuning to a larger narrative of deep, geological time.

In our second of a two-part grounding conversation on “What is AI?”, Lucy Suchman draws connections between military logics, our own conception of intelligence, and how we map that onto AI as we know it.  How we conceptualize “intelligence” in neural networks and machine learning is crucial for how we understand this technology. AI does relatively well at identifying statistical patterns in closed...

In this grounding conversation, the first of two parts on “What is AI?” we go on a deep dive with Meredith Whittaker on the history of artificial intelligence (AI), from hype to current day-to-day impacts. Meredith has had a front seat to some of the most important developments and growth in so-called AI over the past 15 years. Here, she dives into the historical context that gave rise to AI, emph...

Human-level (“general”) AI is more difficult to achieve than most people think. One key obstacle is relevance, a conceptual version of the frame problem. Another is lack of the semantic web. Yet another is the difficulty of computer vision. So artificial general intelligence (AGI) isn’t on the horizon. Possibly, it may never be achieved. No AGI means no Singularity. Even so, there’s already plenty...

Investigative journalist Byron Tau exposes how a hidden alliance between technology companies and the government is creating a new American surveillance state.

Gary Goldman was a writer on “Total Recall”, a Philip K. Dick adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzeneger. It was a big hit. So why do Gary and his writing partner, Angus Fletcher, have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation? They tell Malcolm that it all came down to a roller coaster ride of plot twists that even A-List action actors couldn’t stomach...

The Dark Cloud: The hidden costs of a digital world with Guillaume Pitron

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Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens when the most intimate details of a writer’s life become the subject of his or her professional work.

Course homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/berkeley-cs294-158-sp20/home Lecture Instructor: Alec Radford (OpenAI) Course Instructors: Pieter Abbeel, Aravind Srinivas, Peter Chen, Jonathan Ho, Alex Li, Wilson Yan CS294-158-SP20: Deep Unsupervised Learning UC Berkeley, Spring 2020

Join Jason Resnikoff and Nelson Lichtenstein for a discussion of Resnikoff's new book "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work." This event aired on March 1. About the Book: "Labor's End" traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the...

Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau is a science and SETI historian and a Karl Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Professor Sir Terry Pratchett Inaugural Lecture "The Importance of Being Amazed about Absolutely Everything". 4 November 2010, Trinity College Dublin Also see video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnDAzHA3WM&feature=channel_video_title

How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - Alberto Garcia, Igalia SteamOS is the Linux-based operating system that runs on Valve's Steam Deck. SteamOS is based on existing open source components, and follows an approach of contributing as much as possible to the upstream projects that it uses. This presentation will cover some of the improvements that the development of SteamOS has c...