Translation is one of the areas of life where AI has already become indispensable. One of the most obvious advantages of machine translation is how it...
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Should We Be Polite to AI?
The Rise of Artificial Voices and How We Perceive Them
This summer, Dutch regional radio station RTV Drenthe hired a new newsreader: the news bulletins on Saturday and Sunday, still written by human journalists, are now...
Continue reading...Secularisation, Individualism and ChatGPT
For the vast majority of human history, we lived in relatively small communities, often with only minor religious differences that made it easy to communicate with...
Continue reading...The AI Chatbot that’s a bit too much like your best friend
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...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...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...When the border of reality blurs…
In the age of fake news and the spread of misinformation, it is of little surprise that the phenomenon known as “Deepfake” has established itself. Defined...
Continue reading...The makings of AI – from an algorithm to a sentient being?
To many, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are just simple terms used in the tech and internet world, having little to no actual meaning. The main difference...
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...Fear of the AI – a valid concern or just a common misrepresentation?
With the growth of technology and the rise of the internet, various types of Artificial Intelligence have infiltrated almost every step of our digital life, ranging...
Continue reading...TikTok Trend ‘Ask AI to draw’: can AI replace handmade art?
Introduction In the digital society we currently live in we come across many trends. One of the trends I came upon is the ‘Ask AI’ trend...
Continue reading...Enter the Matrix: An Exploration of Digital Futures (Part 2)
In the second part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss the...
Continue reading...Enter the Matrix: An Exploration of Digital Futures (Part 1)
In the first part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss videogame...
Continue reading...Smile for your employer!
Let’s meet ‘Miłek’ [from polish miło – nice], a cute little device based on IA algorithms created by a polish start-up Quantum CX. It is here...
Continue reading...Establishing World Dominance
With robots and AI developing rapidly, the age old question remains – will they take over or will the human factor still play a part in it?
Continue reading...The illusion of life
Do you feel like every day is the same and like there is possibly something more to life? Good news for you, your reality is a...
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