David Jackson

Artist and designer researching storytelling and AI at Manchester Met Uni. Views + opinions all mine or other people's.

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

@dugganjr Some people have all the luck. I keep asking for The Max but no one knows how.

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

A collection creative writing tools that use #GPT3 AI to write things. Much more interesting to thinking of AI as an authors' tool rather than as an author. https://t.co/niaTQJdHsT

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

@dugganjr I mean it’s probably the funniest thing I’ve seen you do this month. I get it.

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Also, last but by no means least, Tom @PollenStudio
(pictured calmly hang out with Nile!)

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

So proud to be part of the success of this project and still reflecting in the star dust of Nile Rodgers over two days in pre-Covid studio last Feb🤩

Working with @SODAmcr colleagues like @marshacourneya and @foreverproject and @brightwhiteltd over 1.5 years also incredible 🙌

[School of Digital Arts @SODAmcr]

IN THE ROOM WITH NILE ROGERS💥

We're extremely proud to be involved in this amazing project!🎉

@foreverproject have created the world’s first voice-interactive portrait, allowing you to chat with music legend @nilerodgers🎸

Find out more and Freak out - https://t.co/9hrzrYxpXY

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

@medialator @marshacourneya @EmNuttall @yung_computer @RachelGenn @mozillafestival A gruesome thought! Totally possible though... The challenge would be collecting the dataset

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Come see our collection of algorithmically written stories at Mozfest. We're looking for the biases that come up when we ask a machine 🤖 to write stories with us: https://t.co/fhnUfKeyJY
with @marshacourneya @EmNuttall @yung_computer @RachelGenn @mozillafestival amonst others!

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

@medialator @marshacourneya @EmNuttall @yung_computer @RachelGenn @mozillafestival Yes, it's GPT-3 derived. So we're very much in black box territory as far as bias presentation is concerned.

[Emma Nuttall @EmNuttall]

A busy day today! Kicking off with 'Future of Narrative' with @Storyjacker & @marshacourneya 🤓🤖 #aistorytelling #digitalstorytelling
@mozillafestival

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

@nicwhitton It's a soliquid, obviously...

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

A neat round up of algorithmic biases in the news in 2020 by @themarkup, once again highlighting our tendency to conflate the ability to quantify something (however erroneously) with its informational value: https://t.co/hArSTd3hZa

[School of Digital Arts @SODAmcr]

THIS FRIDAY: Find out more about our brand new Digital Arts and Media courses, meet our tutors and ask any questions you might have at our undergraduate Virtual Open Day!

Interested? Book your place now: https://t.co/XaX2qvZmEm

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Useful info for all researchers from #BAMEOver folks. Defines better terms of reference 'for people with lived experience of racism'.

https://t.co/Qyn6sVxPpU

Instructive and a great example of effective co-creation...

[Radix Big Tent - RBT @Radix_UK]

How does finance impact on environment & how can it be re-imagined to contribute to env & social agenda? Radix fellow @erturk_ismail will be hosting online discussion 2/12 5pm UK time with @FuturEverything @irini_mirena @PhilippRoessner @furtherfield https://t.co/NlSmPWLltP

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Great talk with @foreverproject 's Sarah Coward and Paul Canty and @SODAmcr's Toby Heys about the 18 month Nile Rodgers VR Experience project funded by @innovateUK where we worked on alongside industry leaders Forever, @brightwhiteltd and @PollenStudio.
https://t.co/xbHogvPbD4

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

School of Digital Arts (@SODAmcr ) that I work in has a load of really exciting digital arts and media masters programmes coming online in September 2021. Top colleagues are presenting these virtually later today if you want to pop along and see what's on offer...

[School of Digital Arts @SODAmcr]

THIS AFTERNOON: Join us at our Virtual Postgraduate Open Day! 👩‍💻

You’ll be able to attend postgraduate subject presentations, have live chats with tutors & hear more about our brand new interdisciplinary school✨

Find out more and book your place now: https://t.co/o4ToBvJusK

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Great resource for anyone interested in keeping up with creative ML applications...

[Emil Wallner @EmilWallner]

*** It’s LIVE ***

I've made an index with 340 creative Machine Learning projects!

More coming every week!!

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👉 https://t.co/P7OdrKAk1X 👈
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(*・ω・)ﾉ🍾 YAY!!

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

More surreal painterly abstracts from the world of genre, this time trained on romance novels. They're more figurative. And there's something vaguely Betty Draper about the repeating figure at the front of the frame...

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Two surreal images coming out of a StyleGAN genre project I've been working on. They're produced by an algorithm trained on hundreds of sci-fi book covers. Always fascinated to see the way that tropes are interpreted/mangled by algorithms...

[David Jackson @Storyjacker]

Interesting paper provides experimental evidence to inform human-machine writing practices going forward... would be interesting to see the same test performed with GPT-3 (via @gwern) https://t.co/XoRXsjOfmp