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AI as miniature archive
What happens to ground truth when finding a factoid or photo no longer means consulting an archive but generating one from scratch? …
Pooling ideas for an AI ethics policy
Diversity without cacophony Group discussions on controversial subjects can open students to more viewpoints, but they can also result in the usual …
Award-winning director screens film for permaculture class
What’s the connection among happiness, women’s empowerment, and sustainable living? This week a UMaine course in permaculture hosted a lively discussion on …
“AI made me basic”
When a tech reporter for the NY Times outsourced her decisions for a week to ChatGPT, she complained that “AI made me …
Can AI help democracy? This app hopes it can
A new tool hopes to drive more students to the polls, and it uses AI under the hood to help.
Why your AI outputs feel “average”
AI advocates have expressed frustration at Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, where he argued that large language models …
AI’s threat to elections is not what you think
Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting …
The Misapplication of AI
We should be genuinely worried about the hubris of the captains of AI.
Digital Curation in the Shadow of AI
Join UMaine Digital Curation for a conversation with Christiane Paul, a trailblazer in the field who will review how practices of creating, …
Why you should generate AI images in your classroom
Text generators like ChatGPT have dominated my conversations with educators about AI in the past year. Despite their emergence a year before …
AI versus old-school creativity: a 50-student, semester-long showdown
This fall an unusual four-month experiment pitted generative AI against conventional digital tools in eight separate creative tasks. Fifty students wrote, coded, …
NEH Entangled Ecologies: AR meets Shaker Forest
Entangled Ecologies, an NEH funded project, led by UMaine's Joline Blais and Dartmouth colleague John Bell, creates an (AR) App that reveals the entwined histories and ecological systems of the Shaker Forest in Enfield, NH..
How To Teach with AI and Still Put People First
By Jon Ippolito Worried that generative AI might have killed the student essay? An “AI sandwich” may resurrect learning through writing …
The future of writing and Julius Caesar’s last breath
As part of the Learning With AI initiative, Still Water researchers continue to examine the role of generative AI in reshaping contemporary …
The history of movie acting, revealed by AI
Still Water senior researcher and New Media alumnus John Bell continues to uncover insights by marrying old and new media. This summer …
Wild Blueberry Stewards
For the past year, Still Water co-director Joline Blais has been president of the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center, headquartered in a physical museum in Columbia Falls and online at WildBlueberryHeritageCenter.org. The museum is an extension of the Wild Blueberry Lands
Webinars examine impact of AI on coders and creators
As part of its Learning With AI initiative, UMaine’s New Media program continues to offer free webinars on ways generative AI like …
To prevent cheating with AI, add it to your syllabus
Still Water faculty and colleagues have an answer for educators confused about how to cope with the rapid rise of ChatGPT and …