“My career is a quest to use the computer as a medium to spur the imagination and galvanize people to critically reflect upon society.” Prof. D. Fox Harrell, MIT CSAIL 0. Computational Narrative Professor Fox Harrell on computational narratives: “Computational narratives take many forms including virtual and augmented reality systems, immersive experiences, videogames, electronic literature,…
Preparing for an era of deepfakes and AI-generated ads? A framework has become available for understanding responses to manipulated advertising in the context of AI-generated media. Generations of manipulation in advertising is also analysed as the timeline of analogue, digital and synthetic media. According to the authors, “technological innovations have given the advertising industry the…
Digital Constitutionalism: Relocating Powers in the Algorithmic Society The spread of digital technologies has led to disruptive effects on the society of this century. As Floridi underlined, daily life is going towards an ‘onlife’ dimension. Automated data collection, mining, and algorithmic analysis, resulting in predictive profiling are increasingly projecting rights and freedoms in a ubiquitous…
BetweenBrains: Taking Back our AI Future, a 2020 book, is a comprehensive summary of AI movement, also discussing AI-related media in detail. In chapter six, the authors interpret the AI technology in context of social media, journalism, public dialogue and democracy for responsible thinking and proper AI ethics. “Trust has been eroding globally for a…
How can humans be redefined with artificial intelligence? Interview with Katalin Feher Ph.D. Fulbright Research Scholar. An excerpt from the interview is below. The full text is available in English at medium.com. The original interview was published in Hungarian by Digital Hungary. /…/ At this point, artificial intelligence (AI) is placed in the picture Exactly. In this case, we are no…
