Today we have the third edition of the exhibition Generative Things at Waag Futurelab Hyperlink event (14:00-20:00)

Let's reframe monitoring AI's outputs as "managing" agents... I mean employees. That way we can get paid manager salaries right?.... Right?

We launch the RIOT 2025 report - State of Responsible Tech on 6 June in Rotterdam during Salon, and organise an unconference to dive deeper into the topics addressed by the authors of the 15 articles.

Join us (and get the report)!

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In 2 weeks, we will officially launch the 5th edition of the “State of Responsible IOT” report: RIOT 2025.
16 inspiring articles, a catalog of provotypes “generative things”.

Join us for the festive launch Salon and/or unconference on 6 June in the heart of Rotterdam!

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Mendeley seems to have finally brought back the ability to search within the text of papers instead of just the metadata. Glad to see we are back to what the desktop version could do in 2018... Progress?

This is today's explosive discussion with a Labour MP, a Tory MP and a columnist for The Sun/rightwing thinktanker about Just Stop Oil and the politics of protest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzs8...

Could we maybe, just for a second, stop bashing people younger than us?

I saw the recent "stats" about GenZ and the readiness for people to jump on them saying all kinds of bad things about them, as per usual. But it felt odd, and my confirmation biases were quickly fulfilled by...

Is there an official term for when two (probably AI-driven) spell checkers disagree?

Inspired by Iohanna Nicenboim's more-than-human stories (tinyurl.com/mrxddabd) I resurrected some work from 2022 where I observed and thought about a sofa that was floating around in a canal near my home. More about it here: tinyurl.com/bdf3955s

I wish we were teaching people about how to code quantum computers instead making meh images and text with GenAI.

The first journal article from my thesis is out! It was a lot of fun and a lot of work 😅.

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All these language-based AI generators are built on a flawed and limited concept, language — the flaw of classification compounds this.

The more I learn about neural networks, the more I just describe them as "brute force mathematics".

Is there a word for the kind of haunting where you read about someone who did a great many things and died at or near your age?

Not super keen on a publisher that has tonnes of problems buying up Researchgate (www.mdpi.com/about/announ...) one might speculate that certain publications might start appearing more frequently in people's feeds...