What if data centers aren’t about AI?
Are we building data centers for AI—or something else? Data from the industry suggests a more insidious motive.
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A small victory over big data
Last December the town of Lewiston, Maine, pushed back on a proposed data center with some help from New Media faculty informed enough to cut through the hype. Still Water co-director Joline Blais was the guest for the December 24th episode of the WTBA podcast, “The Trojan Horse of AI: Data Centers and Community Impact.”
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AI, Old Masters, and the Geometry of Misinformation
Most of us know by now that generative AI can promote stereotypes based on biased data. Yet even when the training data is saturated with perfectly accurate representations—and little to no inaccurate ones—the results can still be biased. Why is this so?
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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, collecting, and exhibiting have transformed in response to the latest tech trends, particularly the rise of generative AI.
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Can the next web solve the Internet’s problems?
Disinformation. Tech monopolies. Surveillance capitalism. For all its benefits, our current Internet is rife with vulnerabilities that can be exploited by the powerful and lead to an erosion of trust among the rest of us. The latest of UMaine’s Digital Curation teleconferences asks whether changes to the fundamental dynamic of the web might help us
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Farm-fresh produce in Maine year-round? Now there’s an app for that
Consumers are increasingly eager to eat local produce, but farm-to-table options in the cold season aren’t always easy to find in a northern state like Maine. That could change thanks to a new mobile app designed to help farmers optimize greenhouse conditions in the winter months, from a team led by Still Water co-director Joline
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Digital Curation’s John Bell wins NEH grant for knocking down the silos between archives
In a world where a search box is usually the only way to enter an online archive, John Bell builds wrecking balls that tear down the walls between institutional silos. His latest project, a collaboration with Dartmouth and UMaine’s VEMI lab, has won a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help scholars access and
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