While acknowledging the potential of some AI, AI Snake Oil uncovers misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it’s being built, marketed and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance and criminal justice.
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Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability
The project revolves around the idea of sending humans to one of the points in space where gravity is absent. Frozen bodies would float until their weak gravities make them assemble into a blob: in this way, a new ‘human’ planet is extra-terraformed
Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans
In 1961, Donald Michie, a British WWII code breaker and a researcher in artificial intelligence, developed MENACE (the Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine), one of the first programs capable of learning to play and win a game of Noughts and Crosses (or Tic-Tac-Toe if you’re American.) Since he had no computers at his disposal at the time, he created a device built out of matchboxes and glass beads to simulate a learning algorithm.
Following in the footsteps of a Marco Polo-esque spice trade, an expedition led by artist Jon Cohrs traveled by canoe past massive cargo ships and factories in search of the numerous artificial flavoring factories of New Jersey, the flavoring capital of the U.S.
Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific and technological advances
The latest exhibition at Laboral, AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL, showcases 100 artworks which, each in their own way, explore the relationship between car culture and art creation in recent decades
All the videos of the VIDA competition winning artworks that were produced with or commented on artificial life technologies
Eden was inspired by Jon McCormack‘s time in the Litchfield National Park, in Australia. The artwork is a […]
Nanotechnologists have developed made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles. And […]
A team of researchers is working on a nano-size battery that one day could be implanted in the […]
SNØBALL is a physical game that mimics the ancient play of snowball throwing. The rapid use of fossil […]
Last Sunday i visited the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany). They have a mind-blowing Light Art from Artificial Light […]
Fugue is an on-going project which offers participants to interact with a virtual (artificial) immune system. They can […]
The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a […]
Scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have re-created one of nature’s most sensitive sound detectors […]
An artificial nose that can tell whether someone is ill from the smell of their breath is being […]
In the next few months, an artificial brain called Cyc will be put online for the world to […]
A group of Kyoto researchers has developed what is probably the world’s smallest artificial muscle, capable of holding […]
Israeli company Fertiligent has devised a disposable pump to improve the effectiveness of a treatment for infertility for […]
By shooting intense radio beams into the night sky, researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program […]
A bioartificial kidney has been developed by David Humes at the University of Michigan. It could help intensive […]
Cyberzoo, by Argentinean artist Gustavo Romano, is a virtual zoo where it is possible to experience the wildest […]
Albert Libchaber and his team at Rockefeller University have made the first steps towards creating a form of […]
An artificial throat that swallows, breathes, salivates and knocks back fizzy drinks has been developed to predict how […]
Massanari explores the ways that the far right uses memetic humor and geek masculinity as tools both to create a sense of community within these leaderless groups and to obfuscate their intentions
Reconsidering the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, natural and artificial
Sensing machines mapping the Arctic, hormone-altering vapour, sweating bacteria, songs from the swamps…. This year’s Open Fields Conference was packed with mind-blowing discoveries
In this episode, the conversation goes from “Wouldn’t it be fun to have extra sexual organs?” to “Why wouldn’t a loving and cute robot be better at ruling over the lives of citizens than human high-ranking officials?”
Risk Landscape is inspired by new technologies that attempt to predict, simulate and monetise possible futures
Gender identities, tensions between natural and artificial, confusion between real and virtual, climate anxieties, transhumanism, etc. The BIP biennial portrays the world entering unchartered, unruly but often exciting territories
From the art of photoprompting to the fact that many of the “godfathers” of the VR industry were in fact women
The installation parodies our anthropocentric worldview, whereby everything revolves around us and we deploy the most sophisticated technologies to satisfy an absurd desire to find our own image in tiny grains of sand
The book chronicles the many tactics that ordinary people develop to evade (even if only temporarily) the constraints of algorithmic power and pursue their own political, economic, cultural or social agendas
The film explores the boom in data centre construction near the Arctic Circle through the fictional story of a surveyor who has travelled north to survey a site for the building of a server farm…
A systematic theory of DIY electronic culture, drawn from a century of artists who have independently built creative technologies
Over the past few years, Vladan Joler has been collaborating with data analysts, media theorists and cyber forensic experts to bring to light some of the hidden layers of digital infrastructures
How the pervasively used notion “green” is used to symbolically mask the increasing technical manipulations of nature and the environment
Daniel Szalai uses animals to explore our relationship with nature and technology