Digital Life Institute
@DigLife3
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Academic, international research partnership led by @ontariotech_u & U of Minnesota, TempleU, TexasTech, ConcordiaU, Director @isabel_pedersen #AIforSocialGood
Joined November 2020
New publication by member Dr. Gustav Verhulsdonck! Augmenting User Experience Design with Multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Study of Technical Communication Students: Technical Communication Quarterly
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This qualitative study explores the integration of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, including FigJam AI and Figma AI plugins, into technical communication students’ desi...
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Steering The Trojan Horse of Social Media: the use of human-centered AI in mitigating human trafficking online via Digital Life Institute
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The digital age features both the virtues and vices of connectivity, especially when analyzing how prominent human trafficking has grown as a result of the internet and social media. Human […]
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RT @SFUenglish: Thank you to everyone who joined us for "I Get You”: Empathy, Rhetoric, & the Design of AI Assistants. We were pleased to w….
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RT @ontariotech_u: With advancements like artificial intelligence and automation reshaping societal norms, Dr. @isabel_pedersen and the @Di….
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Dr. Isabel Pedersen, a Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, and Director of the Digital Life Institute highlights the rapid rise of AI tools, like GPT chatbots, which are...
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“The companies that control our digital lives have a monopoly on the data needed to understand the implications of their products, and AI is no exception.” writes @taylor_owen Opinion: AI can be a threat to children’s lives.
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A Florida teenager allegedly took his own life because of an AI chatbot – a tragic reminder about the importance of risk-mitigating policy tools such as the Online Harms Act
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AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built via @ConversationEDU.
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Unless AI developers start involving Indigenous people, their claims about the technology benefiting all of humanity will continue to ring hollow.
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Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power - The New York Times
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Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfiel….
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New post by @ontariotech_u grad student @TeresaGoff31160! “as we approach the end of 2024, the alignment of immersive journalism w/ traditional news values and its ethical implications are critical areas of examination” Exploring Immersive Journalism
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Immersive journalism employs Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to allow viewers to engage with news stories as if they were physically present, offering a new dimension to...
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“California was poised to become a standard-bearer for regulating a technology that has exploded into public consciousness with the release of chatbots and realistic image and video generators in recent years” @nytimes
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The bill would have been the first in the nation to place strict guardrails on the new technology, but Gov. Gavin Newsom said the bill was flawed.
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RT @OT_FSSH: Great event last night, AI Killed the Radio Star Again. Thank you to @iameddyjones, @iamdavidneale, @iamelev8, Will from Kop's….
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“Still, standardized tests are not always a good judge of how technologies will perform in real-world situations, and though the system might be good at a math test question, it could still struggle to teach math” @CadeMetz OpenAI Unveils o1 Model
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Driven by new technology called OpenAI o1, the chatbot can test various strategies and try to identify mistakes as it tackles complex tasks.
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New AI models @OpenAI that will change work and education.
We're releasing a preview of OpenAI o1—a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math.
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We wish to thank our sponsors, the Carpenters Union Local 397, @ontariotech_u Faculty of Social Science & Humanities @OT_FSSH @SSHRC_CRSH @DigLife3 for their support of this research and community-based event.
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Join us for an AI & culture event, Sept 18, 2024 in #Oshawa w Dr. @delon_om & hip hop artists: @iamelev8 Eddy Jones, David Neale!.AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop.Bond St. Event Centre, 44 Bond St E 5-7PM . @OT_FSSH .
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Get tickets on Humanitix - AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop. Find event information.
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Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport: “it would likely be a kind of metadata tag that accompanies photos & would be different from watermarking, a practice in which a signal is embedded into an image that identifies it as generated by AI” @jdcapelouto.
🇩🇪🇪🇺 SCOOP: German digital policy officials are holding (very early) talks on ways to push social media platforms to add image authentication tools that could differentiate between real and fake photos.
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CBC article by journalist and filmmaker Candace Maracle.
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How AI can help Indigenous language revitalization, and why data sovereignty is important.interview with Michael Running Wolf for @CBC .
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Indigenous language experts working in computer science say AI can be a useful tool in language revitalization but communities must prioritize the ownership of their data.
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AI companies lose bid to dismiss parts of visual artists' copyright case
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A group of visual artists can continue to pursue some claims that Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway AI's artificial intelligence-based image generation systems infringe their copyrigh...
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