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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Hendrik Kempt; Jan-Christoph Heilinger Abstract The clamor for AI-based applications involving generative models for text and images has fueled wild speculation about the risks and opportunities for society and humanity at large. The potential “existential” threat as a precursor to artificial...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Sylvie Delacroix Abstract The salient concern, today, is not whether copyright law will “allow robots to learn.” The pressing question is whether the exploitation of the data ecosystem that has made generative AI possible can be made socially sustainable. Just as the human right to water is only...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... precedents without committing to any single one. With the release of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4—systems that are sometimes labeled as “foundation models” or “frontier systems” and/or marketed as “generative AI”—the push for regulation of AI has accelerated the world over. To be sure...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
.../10.4159/9780674250062 . Radford, Alec , Karthik Narasimhan , Tim Salimans , and Ilya Sutskever . 2018 . “ Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-training .” Preprint, Open AI. https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/language_understanding_paper.pdf...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Lauren M. E. Goodlad; Matthew Stone Abstract This essay introduces the history of the “generative AI” paradigm, including its underlying political economy, key technical developments, and sociocultural and environmental effects. In concert with this framing it discusses the articles, thinkpieces...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...Caroline E. Schuster; Kristen M. Schuster Abstract This article argues that critical AI studies should make a methodological investment in “thick description” to counteract the tendency both within computational design and business settings to presume (or, in the case of start-ups, hope...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the pursuit of statistical truth. The article concludes with a reflection on how the latent photographic theory of machine vision we have advanced relates to the large image models built for generative AI today. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Duke University...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... and goes on to elaborate rights for educators and students, including institutional support for critical AI literacy professional development; educator collaboration on AI policy and purchase and implementation of generative systems; protection of student privacy and creative control; and consultation...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... Zuckerberg said. “Generative AI” is also moving fast and breaking things. In the so-called arms race between Google and OpenAI (in a multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft), which also includes Amazon (now in a partnership with Anthropic AI), Meta, and a growing number of start-ups...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... “The Age of AI,” and the zeitgeist means that the New York Times sees fit to title a critical review of the book The Age of AI as “A Robot Wrote This Book Review” (Roose 2021 ). If the media agreed to call our period “The Age of the Generative Pretrained Transformer” to reflect the actual technology...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... is the tech the world has always wanted. —Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI For the last decade or so, talk about artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, powered by a number of “machine learning” (ML) breakthroughs made possible by advances in computing and the accumulation of vast stores of data generated...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... generative artificial intelligence. Wasielewski argues that generative AI produces images that draw from the modeling of data across different time periods, which she suggests we could think of as “art forgeries,” a provocative reframing warranting further debate. Overall, the chapter reveals the fascinating...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... moments to issue a custom prompt to be satisfied by the so-called generative AI—but here once more, the speed of the AI is its main added value. In this advertisement, the cutting edge of knowledge work seems to long for industrial efficiency, albeit with a degree of customization that is more reminiscent...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
[email protected] Copyright © 2024 Mél Hogan 2024 extractivism energy techno-fix cloud AI Alongside the recent hype and anxieties surrounding generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), scholars and engineers across the globe have noted that the environmental costs and impacts...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to be “the world's leading genealogy website,” partnered with D-ID, an Israeli platform for so-called generative AI, to launch a new feature called “Deep Nostalgia.” Deep Nostalgia focalizes and animates the faces of family members and other historical figures pictured in old photographs to create a live effect...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... and non-humans)” and “language meanings and extra-linguistic reality (concepts and objects)” are irrevocably divided. As frequent collaborators, we coauthors differ in the ontological emphases we find most generative for our research. But we share the belief that critical AI studies can benefit both from...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
..., 2023. The conversation was moderated by Tom Nissley and edited for Critical AI by Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Kelsey Keyes. Questions from the audience have been edited for concision. TC: Broadly speaking I think young people like your students give me hope. The younger generation constantly surprises...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to consider the model in its entirety. Hence beyond the visibilization of a performance of “intelligence” and “cognition” is a holistic understanding of the practices and political economies that allow “generative AI” to function. A reflexive stance toward these systems is, we contend, a necessary first step...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
..., demonstrating how they apply it to AI in general and in African countries specifically. The eight chapters roughly fall into two categories: broad explorations of AI ethics in African contexts and specific case studies situated in different countries or regions on the continent. Responsible AI in Africa...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., the second half of the book examines (at least) digital technology in general and the intersections between digital and other forms of technology and major political issues. Since the literature on these topics is even vaster than that on AI, much of this prior scholarship goes largely unmentioned...
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