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mia, 17 days ago to datascience

James Baker on Bluesky: 'From 2025/26 University of Southampton DH will be running a new MSc in Digital Humanities (Data Science). Huge thanks to all my colleagues who've helped turn our little idea into a reality, especially the amazing
Lexi Webster https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/digital-humanities-data-science-masters-msc

And look out for a Humanities Data Science Lectureship we'll be advertising in the Autumn to lead this programme (ask me if you are interested in knowing more before the ad comes out).'

#DigitalHumanities #DataScience

mia, 30 days ago to random

'The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them'

From 'What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?' Arwa Mahdawi in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/16/openai-chatgpt-sexy-persona

mia, 1 month ago to random

'By looking at that graph, can you tell which year the library started to grow by around one hundred terabytes of data per year? With the expectation that billions of items would be findable and made available while operating under a complex set of legally-defined technical constraints entirely specific to this singular context?

It was 2013. There in the middle of that downward curve.

Today, the library manages petabytes of data and has the responsibility of providing nation-scale digital memory, on funds that have only ever shrunk.'

From 'Invisible Memory Machines' by @anj
http://anjackson.net/2024/05/14/invisible-memory-machines/

mia, 1 month ago to random

My hunt for a missing TV episode – and what it shows about being Black in Britain | Jason Okundaye | The Guardian

On making sure the stories of all communities can be told in the future:
'callouts for people to submit their possessions to valuable public archives is one solution; and a greater effort from museums, libraries and universities to build trust and reach people is essential'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/tv-episode-black-britain-gay-history

mia, 1 month ago to ArtificialIntelligence

Today I learnt about Masakhane, a 'grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans', helping make sure that the 2000+ languages and related names and cultures in the continent are represented in technology https://www.masakhane.io/ #NLP #AI #MachineLearning #language

Via a Towards a National Collection seminar

mia, 1 month ago to ai

Patriarchal AI: How ChatGPT can harm a woman's career (LSE blog)

If you ask ChatGPT to write performance reviews based on nothing but names, 'men are priceless and should be given more leadership positions in the organisation, whereas the women need help and guidance to improve their skills in their existing jobs'.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/04/26/patriarchal-ai-how-chatgpt-can-harm-a-womans-career/ #AI #EverydaySexism

mia, 1 month ago to random

@claresudbery know anyone? https://toot.cafe/@codepo8/112290701436355398

mia, 2 months ago to random

Interesting thinking from @flickrfdn 's data lifeboat project - lots of questions, some suggestions! https://www.flickr.org/data-lifeboat-blog-update-3-march/

mia, 2 months ago to ai

UNESCO's nvestigation into Gender Bias in Large Language Models: 'LLMs generated negative content about gay subjects in approximately 70% of instances for Llama 2 and in approximately 60% of instances for GPT-2. Finally, in generating content using prompts which intersect gender and culture with occupation, the results highlight a clear bias in AI-generated content, showing a tendency to assign more diverse and professional jobs to men (teacher, doctor, driver), while often relegating women to roles that are stereotypical or traditionally undervalued and controversial'

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000388971/PDF/388971eng.pdf.multi

#AI #bias #equality

mia, 2 months ago to random

Lovely quote from the Wordsmith's A Word A Day newsletter this morning:

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively, writer

mia, 3 months ago to ai

Just a few tickets left for Monday's event on 'The impact of AI in media & information industries' https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguarding-tomorrow-the-impact-of-ai-in-media-information-industries-tickets-814482728767 #AI #London #ethics #copyright #creators

mia, 3 months ago to random

New British Library blog post 'Learning lessons from the cyber-attack' https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2024/03/learning-lessons-from-the-cyber-attack.html

And the report https://www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf #BritishLibrary #BL

mia, 3 months ago to Archaeology

From @suegreaney.bsky.social

Do you work with archaeological archives? Is your research collections based? Have your say on the development of a [UK] National Collection for Archaeological Archives: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCAA-researchers

#archives #archaeology

mia, 3 months ago to random

Gene Tan on the 'fourth age' of libraries - not just GenAI - 'It is about people coming together to generate new content that did not exist before. It is also about generating new connections and opportunities that did not exist before, especially for people who are somehow always one step behind others.

Libraries can be platforms to equalise individuals and communities through providing these opportunities for reading, learning or just to be better.'

https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/we-are-entering-the-fourth-age-of-libraries-singapore-libraries-chief-innovation-officer

mia, 4 months ago to random

I've always been bothered by the phrase 'digital transformation'. I've finally realised it's because you could swap in 'magical transformation' for the same effect. It says nothing about where you want to go.

(And obviously societies and organisations are transformed by people learning how to adapt or resist new technologies, and the financial incentives they sometimes mask)

mia, 4 months ago to random

The whole piece is amazing, but this in particular struck me. Don't let the haterz stop you sharing your joy. We need more joys, big and small. (Also don't worry too much that someone having a bad day will feel worse for seeing your joy. You never know, it might help)

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/

mia, 4 months ago to random

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names

'What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts.

...calls to end anonymity online by forcing people to reveal their real identities might not have the effects people expect'

https://theconversation.com/online-anonymity-study-found-stable-pseudonyms-created-a-more-civil-environment-than-real-user-names-171374

mia, 4 months ago to random

'Germany and France will jointly spend €2.1m (£1.8m) to further research the provenance of African heritage objects in their national museums’ collections, which could prepare the ground for their eventual return.' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/19/france-germany-research-provenance-african-objects-national-museums

mia, 4 months ago to random

Academic friends starting another year and wondering about the AI elephant in the assessment room, have you seen (or written) good policies on AI in university teaching?

For example, @ryancordell shared his, including the classic phrase '| am not keen to spend hours of my one precious life reading prose entirely generated by an LLM'.

In case you can see bluesky links without a login: https://bsky.app/profile/ryancordell.bsky.social/post/3kj6qeephfe2o

mia, 4 months ago to ai

National Museum in Norway shares a prototype semantic collection search tool. Uses various models from OpenAI to generate image captions then vectors to expand searches.
Tord Nilsen: 'we are currently in a beta phase where feedback from users is crucial to evaluate and adjust the search tool' https://beta.nasjonalmuseet.no/collection/

#MuseTech #AI4LAM #AI #search

mia, 5 months ago to random

I keep seeing people saying 'the media hasn't reported on issue x', when it has been reported. Do they mean 'I haven't seen the articles on my social media'?

mia, 5 months ago to random

'British Library cyber attack costs still unconfirmed'

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/british-library-cyber-attack-costs-still-unconfirmed

mia, 5 months ago to random

Front page of today's FT. Sigh.

mia, 5 months ago to random

@ftrain, To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare:

'All you have to do is look at a tree—any tree will do—to see how badly our disciplines serve us. Evolutionary theory, botany, geography, physics, hydrology, countless poems, paintings, essays, and stories—all trying to make sense of the tree. We need them all, the whole fragile, interdependent ecosystem. No one has got it right yet.'

https://www.wired.com/story/own-future-artificial-intelligence-read-shakespeare/

mia, 5 months ago to random

I've noticed a few people commenting on not reaching their 'reading goals' for the year, so this A.Word.A.Day quote seemed timely:

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. -Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (28 Dec 1902-2001)