“‘Cut’ is the wrong way to think about scope. When you take a chainsaw to the things you dream of doing, you hurt feelings.” Monty Sharma of #MassDigi giving a great talk at WPI IMGD about scope!
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Gillian Smith
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Director of WPI Interactive Media & Game Design. Procedural generation, computational craft, critical cs ed, feminist tech, mom stories.
Me: Wow, I've finally found a great use for full automation with ChatGPT. It can turn these MLA citations into bibtex entries automatically! What a timesaver!
ChatGPT: Converts to valid bibtex format, gets all the men's names correct and everyone else's wrong.
Never mind.
Re-visiting my generative embroidery project, trying to make it more friendly for converting generated designs to stitch-able patterns. Made a little world map cross-stitch pattern generator as a test case, and I kinda like it!
And here, as though written by "progressive authors". Whoa, what happened to all those author names. 🤔
My night time hobby these days is to reflect upon the assumed social norms in ChatGPT in the context of children's fiction. Here's 10 popular kids' board books, as if they had been rewritten 50 years from the original publication date.
Ran through The Open Letter with my students today, live reacting in google doc comments and then discussing. Core takeaways:
- students are great
- the AI hype is so very transparent
- critiquing the assumed desirable (but very dystopian) future in that letter could easily fill a whole term
- it’s both fun and scary to teach on the absolute edge of the AI hype cycle
- none of them had heard of “AI Winter” before so now the collaborative notes doc is full of “Hot AI Summer” memes
- students are great
- the AI hype is so very transparent
- critiquing the assumed desirable (but very dystopian) future in that letter could easily fill a whole term
- it’s both fun and scary to teach on the absolute edge of the AI hype cycle
- none of them had heard of “AI Winter” before so now the collaborative notes doc is full of “Hot AI Summer” memes
Teaching Ethics of Creative AI this term and I am so excited. Added it two weeks before term started, and it filled past capacity. ~40 energized students doing their own critical design projects. Most I've looked forward to a class in years.
Reading list: https://pastebin.com/h8ArZi8U
Michele BanksHey mastodon, I heard you like #sciart https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/ #art #painting #ayearforart
