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Are we building data centers for AI—or something else? Data from the industry suggests a more insidious motive.
When military data becomes market advantage
Online markets are turning war—and other policies—into wagers.
Last December the town of Lewiston, Maine, pushed back on a proposed data center with some help from New Media faculty informed …
This week we lost a figure known as “the dean of American avant-garde film.” Ken Jacobs was renowned for his ability to …
Of all the AI buzzwords out there, the word “model” would seem free of hyperbole compared to “superintelligent” or the “singularity.” Yet …
How many AI videos equal watching a Netflix movie? A tool launched last week by the Still Water lab lets students compare …
This April’s teleconference from UMaine’s Digital Curation program looks at the practical and ethical issues of integrating AI into archival workflows—and how …
When he died last Wednesday, artist Mel Bochner left a body of work that’s gained in relevance in a half century defined …
Most of us know by now that generative AI can promote stereotypes based on biased data. Yet even when the training data …
What happens to ground truth when finding a factoid or photo no longer means consulting an archive but generating one from scratch? That’s the question that drives “Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive,” an essay I wrote for the forthcoming anthology New Directions in Digital Textual Studies.
Diversity without cacophony Group discussions on controversial subjects can open students to more viewpoints, but they can also result in the usual …
What’s the connection among happiness, women’s empowerment, and sustainable living? This week a UMaine course in permaculture hosted a lively discussion on …
When a tech reporter for the NY Times outsourced her decisions for a week to ChatGPT, she complained that “AI made me …
A new tool hopes to drive more students to the polls, and it uses AI under the hood to help.
AI advocates have expressed frustration at Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, where he argued that large language models …
Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting …
We should be genuinely worried about the hubris of the captains of AI.