Chemical, with Josh Lepawsky - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

If you think you know anything about e-waste from what’s normally reported in the news, please have a listen to this episode with the brilliant Josh Lepawsky — it will really open up everything you thought you understood! We discuss global waste industries, shipping waste, the ideals of recycling, plastics and mining waste, and the need for collective action. And chemicals. Recorded Aug 3, 2023. Released Oct 9, 2023.What E-Waste Journalism Gets Wronghttps://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-e-waste-journalism-gets-wrong/ Sources and Streams of Electronic Wastehttps://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30307-9 Materials in Flux - A Symposium curated by Formafantasma Session 2: Contextualizinghttps://youtu.be/ChKchFQGcyc?t=1506 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nostalgia, with Grafton Tanner - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

What is nostalgia? A memory? A feeling? A weapon?? Tune in to my conversation with Grafton Tanner about the relationship between tech, nostalgia, retrobate and much more! Recorded Mar 31, 2023. Released April 30, 2023.Grafton Tannerhttps://graftontanner.com/ Yesterday Once Morehttps://reallifemag.com/yesterday-once-more/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Stale, with Zane Griffin Talley Cooper - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Zane and I delve deep into the materialities of the virtual world, and try to imagine who the Metaverse (in all its possible iterations) is for — with some attention to our uncomfortable, sweaty bodies, fussing with headsets and sensory overload. We conclude that Big Tech’s visions of the future are a bit stale. Recorded Jan 20, 2023. Released March 30, 2023.The Metaversehttps://about.meta.com/what-is-the-metaverse/ Decenterlandhttps://decentraland.org/download/ Zane’s workhttps://www.zanegriffintalleycooper.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greener, with Sasha Luccioni - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Sasha Luccioni explains LLM to be their parameters and why these matter when thinking about the social and environmental ramifications of AI. Recorded Feb 8, 2022. Released March 20, 2023.Publications (under “Alexandra Luccioni”)https://www.sashaluccioni.com/publications/ ICLR 2023 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning https://www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2023 We’re getting a better idea of AI’s true carbon footprint by Melissa Heikkilä https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/14/1063192/were-getting-a-better-idea-of-ais-true-carbon-footprint Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Handled, with Hank Gerba - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Hank Gerba was once one of Sophia The Robot’s handlers, and in this episode he reveals the magic (deception) behind social robots that promise to be one day autonomous. Recorded Jan 24, 2023. Released March 10, 2023. Sophiahttps://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/ The Most Realistic Humanoid Robots in The Worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjHNFP_773k&ab_channel=Motech Creators of famous Sophia robot reveal AI robotics for children, elderly | Nightlinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRHdnkUjcZg&ab_channel=ABCNews Sophia the Robot and Jimmy Sing a Duet of "Say Something"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zyTlZQYpE&ab_channel=TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fake, with Gabriele de Seta - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Gabriele de Seta and I have a great conversation about deepfakes in a Chinese context. One of the big insights of this episode is that we may have to one day soon consider the agency of replicas in digital (human) form. Recorded Dec 15, 2022. Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platformshttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565211030185  危 特朗普与蓬佩奥向中国示爱的绝密视频流出 我爱你中国https://www.bilibili.com/video/av754473414/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Soulless, with Eryk Salvaggio - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Eryk Salvaggio and I discuss what GANs, stable diffusion and neural networks are, and we take listeners through the process of “reading” an AI image. Recorded Dec 13, 2022.How to Read an AI Image: The Datafication of a Kiss https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/how-to-read-an-ai-image This person does not existhttps://thispersondoesnotexist.com @Suhail They say it's "soulless" https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1575527122449231872?s=20&t=NDTtKG0ET9c42oRmf3Q5-A Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.