Digital Life Institute

Academic, international research partnership led by @ontariotech_u & U of Minnesota, TempleU, TexasTech, ConcordiaU, Director @isabel_pedersen #AIforSocialGood

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

Frontiers | AI agents, wearable computing and the future of postsecondary learning https://t.co/Fjx9iAZTVv

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

New publication by member Dr. Gustav Verhulsdonck! Augmenting User Experience Design with Multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Study of Technical Communication Students: Technical Communication Quarterly https://t.co/IkZa5jJFM0

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

Steering The Trojan Horse of Social Media: the use of human-centered AI in mitigating human trafficking online via Digital Life Institute https://t.co/rSlWlccmCZ

[SFU English @SFUenglish]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for "I Get You”: Empathy, Rhetoric, & the Design of AI Assistants. We were pleased to welcome guest speaker, Professor @isabel_pedersen
from @ontariotech_u
#sfuenglish

[Ontario Tech University @ontariotech_u]

With advancements like artificial intelligence and automation reshaping societal norms, Dr. @isabel_pedersen and the @DigLife3 are focused on how we should use #TechWithAConscience.
https://t.co/jSD24VssYg

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

“The companies that control our digital lives have a monopoly on the data needed to understand the implications of their products, and AI is no exception.” writes ⁦⁦@taylor_owen⁩ Opinion: AI can be a threat to children’s lives. https://t.co/k1P4yprlOk

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built https://t.co/J8eLqZ7xuQ via @ConversationEDU

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power - The New York Times https://t.co/E3FhGBUNtM

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

New post by ⁦@ontariotech_u⁩ grad student @TeresaGoff31160! “as we approach the end of 2024, the alignment of immersive journalism w/ traditional news values and its ethical implications are critical areas of examination” Exploring Immersive Journalism https://t.co/9WO5oZX7Tf

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

“California was poised to become a standard-bearer for regulating a technology that has exploded into public consciousness with the release of chatbots and realistic image and video generators in recent years” ⁦@nytimes⁩ https://t.co/51WTdPPDpT

[Ontario Tech Social Science and Humanities @OT_FSSH]

Great event last night, AI Killed the Radio Star Again. Thank you to @iameddyjones, @iamdavidneale, @iamelev8, Will from Kop's Records, @delon_om and @isabel_pedersen of @DigLife3.

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

“On the qualifying exam for the International Mathematical Olympiad, or I.M.O. — the premier math competition for high schoolers — its previous technology scored 13 percent. OpenAI o1, the company said, scored 83 percent.” @CadeMetz

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

“Still, standardized tests are not always a good judge of how technologies will perform in real-world situations, and though the system might be good at a math test question, it could still struggle to teach math” ⁦@CadeMetz⁩ OpenAI Unveils o1 Model https://t.co/nGHWBYEZDe

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

New AI models @OpenAI that will change work and education.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We're releasing a preview of OpenAI o1—a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond.

These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math. https://t.co/peKzzKX1bu

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

We wish to thank our sponsors, the Carpenters Union Local 397, @ontariotech_u Faculty of Social Science & Humanities @OT_FSSH @SSHRC_CRSH @DigLife3 for their support of this research and community-based event.

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

Join us for an AI & culture event, Sept 18, 2024 in #Oshawa w Dr. @delon_om & hip hop artists: @iamelev8 Eddy Jones, David Neale!
AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop
Bond St. Event Centre, 44 Bond St E 5-7PM
@OT_FSSH
https://t.co/q0Bq5Rmyqa

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport: “it would likely be a kind of metadata tag that accompanies photos & would be different from watermarking, a practice in which a signal is embedded into an image that identifies it as generated by AI” @jdcapelouto

[J.D. Capelouto @jdcapelouto]

🇩🇪🇪🇺 SCOOP: German digital policy officials are holding (very early) talks on ways to push social media platforms to add image authentication tools that could differentiate between real and fake photos
https://t.co/9sSzDonndk

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

CBC article by journalist and filmmaker Candace Maracle

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

How AI can help Indigenous language revitalization, and why data sovereignty is important
interview with Michael Running Wolf for @CBC
https://t.co/06JDiyCs80