Join us for a casual discussion of the paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 In Proceedings of the… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
The Arts Digital Lab is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund. With support from the Faculty of Arts, we have been able to extend the funding to support a further two projects. The successful projects are: Congratulations to all of the… Read More »Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund 2023
At next week’s meetup, Karin Stahel and Kaspar Middendorf will be reporting back on a recent trip they took to the USA, where they visited three different Digital Humanities programmes, at CUNY’s Graduate Center, University of Connecticut’s Greenhouse Studios, and George Mason’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: DH Labs in the USA
Computational approaches to language modeling and translation, an active area of research for more than 75 years, have hit the mainstream. Writers, teachers, and readers have been encountering writing evaluators in wide deployment since the late 1990s, machine translation made readily available since the mid-2000s, procedurally generated text adventures since… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Language Models and Reading Across Stories
The Earthquake Stories Walk, developed earlier this year by Our Stories Project Trust with the support of the Arts Digital Lab, recently featured on the Speak Up – Kōrerotia podcast on Plains FM 96.9. Kōrerotia, hosted by Sally Carlton, is New Zealand’s only specialist human rights radio show. The theme… Read More »Earthquake audio trail featured on Kōrerotia podcast
More people are getting their stories through screens that respond to their curiosity and interests, and more and more these stories speak back to social issues, or even kickstart social movements. We invite you to an interactive creative storytelling workshop for making storygames driven by choices the reader makes. Enter… Read More »Workshop: How to Write an Interactive Storygame
A new digital audio experience launching next week will connect powerful quake memories to physical places in the city – to provide residents and visitors with a unique opportunity to understand the pain and resilience and human impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes. “I was on the fifth floor of the… Read More »Quake stories come to life with new audio walk
ChatGPT is currently at the forefront of much debate about the impact of AI in education. We are therefore running a workshop next Wednesday 8 Feb at 3 – 4.30pm in Logie 613 to test ChatGPT’s capabilities and discuss its implications for teaching and assessment. The first part of the… Read More »Workshop: ChatGPT, teaching and assessment
This summer has been a busy one in the Arts Digital Lab, with eight students working in the Lab as Research Assistants, as Summer Scholars or on their own research. In this rapid-fire series of five-minute talks, students will reflect on the projects they’ve been working on. Coming from a… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Student Reflections, Summer 2023
Professor Paul Millar is the winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2022 Pou Aronui Award, for distinguished service to humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time. We’re thrilled to acknowledge Paul’s achievement and very pleased to see the work he has done at UC, particularly with the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes… Read More »Paul Millar – Royal Society Pou Aronui Award 2022
