Sofian Audry

artist x researcher x professor
author of Art in the Age of Machine Learning @mitpress
research-creation / new media art / machine learning / AI / ALife

[Yoshua Bengio @Yoshua_Bengio]

I was invited to address the @UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents.

Humanity has summoned the courage and wisdom to manage catastrophic risks before. This is one of those moments, far bigger than any personal, commercial, or national interest. The choices we make about this technology today will shape generations to come. We must act now.

[Ollie Bown misses Twitt er @olliebown]

A little moment in the sun of the @mitpress homepage. The book is FREE as an ePub or PDF.

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

Don't miss the launch tomorrow Saturday december 9th at 9am Pacific Time of "Choreomata: AI as Mass Performance" to which I had the pleasure to contribute! Order the book today at Routledge with 20% off https://t.co/oYGb9fHVbp
#aiart #machinelearningart

[AbTeC @_abtec_]

Abundant Intelligences is hiring: Coordinator North. Spread the word! #IndigenousAI #AI #AritificialIntelligence
https://t.co/RYyF259eVX

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

An interesting case of coauthorship attribution - could AIs also win copyright cases like this? https://t.co/zKbDXjQ78T

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

Pleased to find out about this recent review of my book Art in the Age of Machine Learning https://t.co/keJYuop9Gv
Link to book: https://t.co/iRlhRkVCtC
@mitpress
#aiart #machinelearningart

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

And we should also give the AI some handicaps to be truly representative of human experience: physical (hardware) and psychological (software) trauma. Dysfunctional (or absent) existing social environment. etc.

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

I feel like "turning $100k into a million" requires less intelligence than "surviving on welfare" or even better "getting out of poverty". Could make a better starting point for an alternative to Turing Test. Thoughts on how we could design such a test? https://t.co/CFfueyULt9

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

In Canada first welfare check arrives 1 month after you declare having no $ and no income. If you make some income, it is deduced from your welfare. If you hide it and they find out, they cut your check monthly to reimburse themselves.

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

AI would at least need to maintain its own existence (pay for energy consumption, internet connection, service fees, etc) starting with no money, so it would need to borrow money first.

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

Our paper on the groundbreaking work of Nicolas Baginsky has been accessed more than 750 times! Read it here: https://t.co/oCxX1U6lAS #AIart #AIarthistory #roboticart

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

Our paper in @MDPIOpenAccess Arts (Review of Machine Art) about The Three Sirens self-supervised robotic band is out! https://t.co/ClykKKhFnM #AIart #generativemusic #roboticart #nostalgia

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Big AI milestone today: CICERO, an AI agent that can negotiate and cooperates with people.
It is the first AI system to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy.
Cicero ranked in the top 10 of participants on https://t.co/dC0sCIWAc8

[Rebecca Fiebrink is not here. (see bio) @RebeccaFiebrink]

The UAL Creative Computing Institute @ual_cci is hiring TEN academics in creative computing, robotics, computer science, and data science! Especially looking for people with creative computing, digital arts, HCI background. Deadlines range 28 Nov - 13 January. Links & info below:

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

@jeanhuguesroy Eih boy c'est intense ...

[Eduardo Navas @navasse]

Received copies of “The Rise of Metacreativity.” @routledgebooks. Print is irreplaceable. #remix. The book is available on November 18 via all major book retailers! Including Amazon. Please tell your university library to consider purchasing it: https://t.co/cUDKm8kTwD

[Mario Klingemann💧💦 @quasimondo]

If you consider yourself an AI artist or are employing AI instruments in your artistic practice I strongly recommend you to consider submitting your work to the SOLO AI ‘23 Awards by @SoloJSN

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

Announcing new release of Plaquette v0.4 @arduino library for expressive signal processing and more https://t.co/Wx9M8oqXg8 Featuring new peak detection class https://t.co/WtbDEZ4QBu https://t.co/Wx9M8oqXg8 #Arduino #creativecoding

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

@tolebrun Again, all about domination. Is there a translation of "apprivoiser" which is more about dialogue and mutual care?

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

"To tame" can be used both with a domination/subjugation intent (eg. taming a lion) and with a companionship/empathetic intent (eg. taming a fox, as in "Le Petit Prince"). In French, there are two words: "dompter" and "apprivoiser". Are there two words in English too?

[Sofian Audry @sofianaudry]

@cheznadia We use the word "domesticate" ("domestiquer") but it still contains an intention of domination by "making domestic" (making so that the animal can be made compatible with the house, the world of the human). "Apprivoiser" is more about a mutual process of "seduction" and care.