The term “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI is the often-used yet rarely understood “goal” that contemporary AI researchers and companies claim to be working towards. Sadly, no one can agree on what it actually means. Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist formerly employed by Google who is often referred to as “the godfather of AI”, saysContinue reading “What Exactly Is ‘Artificial General Intelligence’?”
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AI Ethicist Reveals What the Plan is for Paying Off AI Companies’ Debts
In a new short documentary for FastCompany, AI ethicist Tristan Harris talks about AI’s impact on the US economy, and how companies like OpenAI are hoping to pay off the millions of dollars in debt they kept accruing (hint: it’s not advertising, and it’s not chatbot subscriptions). Watch the full documentary.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Wants You To Just Chill About the Whole OpenAI/Hugging Face Thing
“We need to back away from this anthropomorphic language that paints these models as somehow conscious.” The always reliable Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, does her best to communicate that OpenAI’s “cyberattack” on Hugging Face was not evidence of an AI agent “waking up and going rogue” – it was a human-initiated failure,Continue reading “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Wants You To Just Chill About the Whole OpenAI/Hugging Face Thing”
What Happens When You Ask ChatGPT a Question?
While I can’t vouch for The Asian Boss‘s overall trustworthiness, this short Instagram explainer video on the technical process involved when you ask ChatGPT a question versus what happens when you ask a search engine is pretty spot-on, and very easy to understand.
Anne-Marie Imafidon: We’re Being Gaslit About How Smart AI Actually Is
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon is a trustee at the Institute for the Future of Work, the CEO of Stemettes, and one of the UK’s most highly regarded figures in technology. The Oxford computer scientist and entrepreneur appears here on Dr Myriam Francois’s The Tea podcast to discuss why AI needs to be more critiqued than feared.
Signal’s President Meredith Whittaker: “You Have Plenty to Hide”
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the nonprofit organisation responsible for developing the Signal messaging app. In this episode of the Futurology podcast, she discusses the ways AI is being used as a tool of surveillance capitalism.
Carissa Véliz on the Myth of AI’s Inevitability
Dr Carissa Véliz is a leading AI ethicist and a professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. In this episode of The Tea with Myriam Francois, Dr Véliz argues against the prevailing attitude that AI is inevitable.
Sound Matters Symposium Presentation, South Africa
STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA – Our Director was invited to participate in the virtual symposium Sound Matters, a virtual symposium hosted by the South African Research Chair in Science Communication at Stellenbosch University, The Academic Citizen, and the South African Journal of Science. His presentation ‘Science of Sound, Science as Sound’ was a brief introduction toContinue reading “Sound Matters Symposium Presentation, South Africa”
The Listening Biennial 2023: Listening Tambayan, Manila, Philippines
Our Director presented a pre-recorded guided tour of our museum and participated in a live discussion via Zoom today in Manila, Philippines as part of the Listening Biennial 2023, a worldwide symposium, exhibition and series of events from 6 July – 8 August. Curated by Filipina curator Dayang Yraola, the Listening Tambayan is one ofContinue reading “The Listening Biennial 2023: Listening Tambayan, Manila, Philippines”
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 27 February 2023
A good time capsule of where things were at the beginning of Big Tech’s push to make “AI” into The Next Big Thing: ChatGPT was starting to put writers out of work, and self-driving cars were going to redesign cities just like the Segway did.
MOPS Director Talks Death of the iPod on Sky News
LIVERPOOL/SOUTHSEA – MOPS Director John Kannenberg appeared on the 10 o’clock Sky News last night as part of a three minute segment marking the death of the iPod.
Get to Know Our Collections!
We’ve just completed a substantial update to our website: an all-new section about our Collections! There are now individual pages dedicated to each of our four primary collections: our Permanent Collection of Sounds our Physical Objects Collection our Research Library and our Video Gallery Read about how each collection got its start, look at behind-the-scenesContinue reading “Get to Know Our Collections!”
Is the MOPS Conference Available to Watch Online?
TO ALL WHO’VE ASKED ABOUT WATCHING OUR CONFERENCE ONLINE: Yes, we did record the MOPS Conference! But unless you bought a ticket, you won’t be able to watch it online for a little while yet. We’re grateful that so many people want to watch our first-ever sound studies conference now that it’s over. And you’llContinue reading “Is the MOPS Conference Available to Watch Online?”
Ecsite 2021 Conference Appearance
Earlier today our Director & Chief Curator appeared as part of The Power of Sound, a panel session that took place at the Ecsite European Network of Science Centres & Museums 2021 conference. The session was convened by Michèle Antoine of Universcience in Paris, and also featured presentations about sound-based exhibitions by Mark Read ofContinue reading “Ecsite 2021 Conference Appearance”
What Causes The Sound Of Thunder?
The latest addition to our Video Gallery is now viewable at our YouTube Channel!