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Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Reimagining Search & Discovery for Digital Collections: Toward Computing Cultural Heritage

Tuesday 29 October, 11 am – 12Meremere 105 Benjamin Charles Germain Lee (University of Washington) Widespread efforts by libraries, archives, and museums have drastically improved digital access to cultural heritage collections. Yet, scholars and the public alike face a persistent challenge: how to explore and analyze these collections, which frequently… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Reimagining Search & Discovery for Digital Collections: Toward Computing Cultural Heritage

Election Special: Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous for Democracy?

Find out how to avoid fake news and get the real deal before voting. Get up to speed with the latest developments in AI, social media and journalism with researchers from the University of Canterbury.  Dr Zita Joyce (Head of Department of Media and Communication) and Professor Donald Matheson (Media… Read More »Election Special: Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous for Democracy?

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Digital Humanities Research Network: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots

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

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Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Language Models and Reading Across Stories

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