Hello! I decided to try out as a last post here to make a vlog. It was fun, it went in too many directions, and a...
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The Absurdity of Duolingo Sentences
I’m currently trying to learn Spanish, and since language courses are unfortunately extremely expensive I decided to use an app for now. In comes Duolingo. I’m...
Continue reading...Can computers cry?
With the last lecture in mind, I felt inspired to go more in depth about the questions that were asked in the last lecture. “Are computers...
Continue reading...Can AI help us understand the way that animals communicate?
At this point, I am well aware of the ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in our lifes today, and that living without them would...
Continue reading...Podcast — Smart Contact lenses; the VR glasses of the future?
For this podcast I discussed the topic of Smart Contact Lenses. The idea of the smart contact lens started as a concept only showed in Sci-fi...
Continue reading...Video: Art of the Future?
Hi everyone! In this video I will tell you about my visit to the Nxt Museum Amsterdam. I went with a few girls from the minor...
Continue reading...Unnamed Podcast Episode 5: Bloc Artist theft in AI Art
Hello and welcome to the fith podcast episode made by Ceiba Dick-Read, Max Alexandre and Gijs Mesman. In this episode, Max is unfortunately missing, but luckily...
Continue reading...Dries Depoorter: privacy piracy?
After reading an interview with Belgian concept artist Dries Depoorter, I am surprised part of his portfolio has not been presented on this website yet, so...
Continue reading...Podcast – Coded Bias: AI in Power
In this podcast, we (Mehak, Isabel, and Lara) talk about the documentary “Coded Bias,” directed by Shalini Kantayya. The documentary discusses how biased the algorithms used...
Continue reading...Voyage of Digitality & the Internet: Podcast 01
Introduction Welcome to the Voyage of Digitality & the Internet. Joined by Savvina Daniil, PhD researcher at the Human-Centred AI workgroup of the Centrum Wiskunde &...
Continue reading...He works, but she is naked — gender bias in translation
Last week, I came across a post which highlights one of the issues of training AI with massive data sets and little oversight. Discussed is a...
Continue reading...The societal issues adressed in WALL-E
Today I want to discuss Disney’s iconic movie WALL-E from 2008 and the societal issues it addresses. I hadn’t seen the movie for a very long...
Continue reading...Clip-who? Looking back on Microsoft’s best worst Office Assistant
Spurred by this week’s prompt being “what is an early memory of digital technology”, I took a deep dive in my childhood. Suddenly I remembered an...
Continue reading...Living the most undignified life in a high-tech world
The “low-life” in cyberpunk not merely means material hardship, but more of a spiritual bullying: contempt for human self-esteem. According to Wikipedia, low-life people are those...
Continue reading...Transkribus: an AI-powered text recognition tool for (old) handwriting
Last week I wrote about the (digital) historical mapping of Leiden. It is a project that uses multiple historical sources from different times to reproduce and...
Continue reading...The AI Poet
This week, I encountered a post on my timeline that really caught my interest. Essentially, the post is a poem that was written by an AI....
Continue reading...AI: Nerf-guns are for babies
The Hermitage in Amsterdam recently opened its new exhibition; love, passion & tragedy. Showcasing a diverse collection of portraits, muses, and artists all centred around romantic,...
Continue reading...Is AI Art Art? Well, It’s In The Name, Isn’t It?
If you have any artist friends, chances are they’ve recently mentioned mentioned AI-generated art. Chances also are that they’re concerned about it. Is AI-generated art really art? What future do human artists have, if algorithms can generate images that win in art competitions?
Continue reading...Art-fical Intelligence, Art and Creativity
It has been my understanding, since growing up in a household of artists, that creativity is a sacred and intrinsic aspect of the human consciousness. Throughout...
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