Finally I have compiled a list of fantastic books to read in the first half of 2024 and update my bookshelf ššŖ
Jun (Oliver) Zhang
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Lecturer in Information Systems at University of Sheffield, an urbanist | #smartcities #urbanai #urbanism #governmentality #criticaltheory #power #surveillance #foucault #poststructuralism #cities
Paul CantrellComputers have been beating the best human Go players since 2016. The Go world champion retired in part because AI is āan entity that cannot be defeated.ā
But a human just trounced one of the worldās best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai
I think this news story is more interesting than it might first appear (without knowing details, so grain of salt). It isnāt just a gaming curiosity; it points to a fundamental flaw with ādeep learningā approaches in general.
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It is my great honour to formally join the University of Sheffield Urban Institute as an associate member. I will be part of the Urban Automation and Robotics theme group, working with colleagues on research streams of #urbanautomation #urbanrobotics #smartcities #smarturbanism #platformurbanism #urbantechnology #governmentality Find our space, people and research from https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute
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Dan Gillmor"AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability"
Must-read piece from @andybaio -- about an ethical issue that isn't getting the attention it deserves. https://waxy.org/2022/09/ai-data-laundering-how-academic-and-nonprofit-researchers-shield-tech-companies-from-accountability/
Johan K SchNew article: "Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Corporate Responsibility in AI Governance Initiatives" by Lottie Lane. #openaccess in Nordic Journal of Human Rights:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18918131.2022.2137288
#ai
#IHRL
#csr
#humanrights
#artificialintelligence
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18918131.2022.2137288
#ai
#IHRL
#csr
#humanrights
#artificialintelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Corporate Responsibility in AI Governance Initiatives
Private businesses are central actors in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), meaning they have a key role in ensuring that AI respects human rights. Meanwhile, international human righ...
Claes HoltzmannMastodon founder Eugen Rochko keeps rejecting investment offers from venture capital firms ā
āMastodon will not turn into everything you hate about Twitter, said Rochko"
https://www.ft.com/content/de808736-2e05-4c3b-a53c-55b170ae9efd?sharetype=blocked
Sarah J. JacksonHere's a thing I wrote in 2019 that I stick by. #Twitter made us better in a lot of ways. As we imagine alternative #tech futures, #migrate to new platforms, and recollect our #digital communities and #organizing strategies, I hope this will be a part of the history too. I refuse to let EM erase this legacy: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/opinion/sunday/twitter-social-media.html
Brent ToderianHave you seen this one before? A short history of traffic engineering, via #copenhagenize. Manufactured car dependency takes a lot of forms, including how easy or hard we make it to get from A to B using different modes/methods. This is about vision, space prioritization, design, budgeting, operations/maintenance, etc. A deliberate result of skewed priorities.
#multimodalcities #urbanism #cities #cars #transportation #CarDependency #streets
#multimodalcities #urbanism #cities #cars #transportation #CarDependency #streets
