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Alexa Steinbrück
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Jun 28

Let’s hope “The AI Dilemma” never gets turned into a Netflix series

The new campaign by the “Center of Humane Technology” is dripping with sensationalist X-risk AGI hype and pseudo-science. That’s not how we should educate the public about the problems associated with AI. In their one-hour talk which has been viewed by more than 2.6M people on Youtube, Aza Raskin and…

AI

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Let’s hope “The AI Dilemma” never gets turned into a Netflix series
Let’s hope “The AI Dilemma” never gets turned into a Netflix series
AI

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Jun 5

Opening speech at “Reshape forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design” (May 2023)

In spring 2023 I had the opportunity to curate a conference at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd as part of my researcher position at AI+D Lab and KITeGG. From May 10–12, 2023, the third KITeGG summer school took place there. Under the title “reshape — forum for AI in…

AI

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Opening speech at “Reshape forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design” (May 2023)
Opening speech at “Reshape forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design” (May 2023)
AI

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Jun 5

Eröffnungsrede von “Reshape forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design” (Mai 2023)

Im Frühjahr 2023 hatte ich die Gelegenheit eine Konferenz an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd zu kuratieren. Vom 10.-12. Mai 2023 fand dort die dritte KITeGG summer school statt. Unter dem Titel “reshape — forum for AI in Art and Design” luden wir zahlreiche internationale Expert*innen ein um einen…

AI

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Opening speech at “Reshape symposium — forum for AI in Art and Design” (KITeGG, May 2023)
Opening speech at “Reshape symposium — forum for AI in Art and Design” (KITeGG, May 2023)
AI

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Jan 20

Can ChatGPT do image recognition?

This is a quick experiment to test if ChatGPT can do a computer vision task such as image recognition. When prompted directly with the question “Can you process images?”, ChatGPT replies promisingly: ChatGPT doesn’t have a media upload functionality, so we have to supply the image via a text-based form…

ChatGPT

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Can ChatGPT do image recognition?
Can ChatGPT do image recognition?
ChatGPT

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Jan 16

Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)

🎸 It’s a wild time for Generative AI 🌄 A new era of (creative) AI has begun 🗣️ Language input has democratized AI 🔲 Foundation Models are here to stay 🖼️ “AI art” is now mainstream 😎 AI myths/bullshit & how to stay cool 🧑‍🏫 What to teach? Expertise/Skillset/Literacy 🧠…

Creativeai

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Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)
Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)
Creativeai

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Apr 11, 2022

Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)

This article explains VQGAN+CLIP, a specific text-to-image architecture. You can find a general high-level introduction to VQGAN+CLIP in my previous blog post “VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?” Here I am looking at the specific VQGAN+CLIP implementation written by artist/programmer Katherine Crowson (aka @RiversHaveWings) which went viral in the summer…

Creativeai

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Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)
Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)
Creativeai

9 min read


Feb 27, 2022

How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for video art installations)

This tutorial contains 2 sets of instructions depending on the type of Raspberry Pi Zero you have: Case 1: Your Pi has WiFi enabled (e.g. Pi Zero W) Case 2: Your Pi doesn’t have WiFi enabled, e.g. the Standard Pi Zero (without a w in its name) Recently my media…

Raspberry Pi

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How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for…
How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for…
Raspberry Pi

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Jan 9, 2022

10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier

Wikidata is the nerdy cousin of Wikipedia. It’s a machine-readable user-editable graph database born in 2012. SPARQL is a query language that is used to query Wikidata (and other databases). The knowledge that you can extract from Wikidata with SPARQL is quite fascinating. Here are a few examples: 🐱 Mayors…

Wikidata

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10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
Wikidata

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·Updated Jan 12, 2022

Daring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistants

Personality and gender in voice assistants is not something that emerges due to the nature of “AI systems”. Rather, it is intentionally created based on the logic of market demand, gender biases, and prevalent unrealistic narratives about AI. Raw AI-ness could mean: Actively deconstructing narratives that parallel artificial intelligence with…

Design

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Daring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistants
Daring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistants
Design

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Aug 3, 2021

VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?

Note: This is a very short high-level introduction. If you’re more interested in code and details, check out my newer blogpost “Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)”! The synthetic imagery (“GAN Art”) scene has recently seen a kind of productivity explosion: A new kind of…

Clip

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VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?
VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?
Clip

5 min read

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