Anna Schjøtt
@annaschjoett.bsky.social
Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
The second paper, 'An Accidental Benchmark: The History, Contingent Power, and Lasting Traces of the GTZAN Dataset' by Allison Jerzak traces the history of the GTZAN dataset, which remains the most widely used dataset for Music Genre Recognition. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An Accidental Benchmark: The History, Contingent Power, and Lasting Traces of the GTZAN Dataset - Digital Society
In 2002, George Tzanetakis presented a paper on how researchers could automatically classify musical genre from audio signals. Claiming that his model worked as well as human classifiers, Tzanetakis m...
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May 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The second paper, 'An Accidental Benchmark: The History, Contingent Power, and Lasting Traces of the GTZAN Dataset' by Allison Jerzak traces the history of the GTZAN dataset, which remains the most widely used dataset for Music Genre Recognition. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture - Digital Society
This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...
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May 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This came out of an excellent conference, organized by @dluitse.bsky.social and @annaschjoett.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam titled - "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation." Look out for the other contributions to this forum, some of which are forthcoming. Super important topic.
May 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This came out of an excellent conference, organized by @dluitse.bsky.social and @annaschjoett.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam titled - "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation." Look out for the other contributions to this forum, some of which are forthcoming. Super important topic.
The seminar series is organised together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke. More information can be found here: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/seminar-seri...
The Critical AI Seminar Series returns
Catherine Breslin / Better Images of AI / Silicon Closeup / CC-BY 4.0 The Critical AI Seminar series will continue in 2024 and 2025 with another five lectures that critically address Artificial Intell...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The seminar series is organised together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke. More information can be found here: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/seminar-seri...