[LGM] AI

[Julien Deswaef]

Hey

Interesting discussion here. Allow me to shamelessly plug something that 
might be of interest to some of you here around that subject.

Disclaimer, I'm currently an employee of ThoughtWorks, a tech consulting 
company and co-directing a program called ThoughtWork Arts. This program 
brings artists and technologists together to explore the impact of 
technology on society.

ThoughtWorks Arts has an Open Call at the moment seeking artists to 
investigate these questions of obscurity, centralization and control 
that is happening right now within the field of Artificial Intelligence.

The full open call is available here: 
https://thoughtworksarts.io/open-call/2019-democratization-ai-blockchain/

Reach out to me at julien at thoughtworksarts.io if you want more 
information and discuss this further.

Thanks.

Julien

On 6/6/19 11:41, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> My current understanding is that the neural net algorithms in place 
> nowadays typically lead to solutions which are powerful and useful but 
> which lack transparency on what's actually going on under the hood. So I 
> agree with the statement that this can be considered equivalent to 
> non-free software since it is basically a black box that no-one can 
> really grasp.
> 
> Em qua, 5 de jun de 2019 às 09:38, Soenke Zehle <soenke at kein.org 
> <mailto:soenke at kein.org>> escreveu:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     while many of you think that ai is not even a science (true), we are
>     still interested in devs like
> 
>     https://github.com/TheFoundryVisionmongers/nuke-ML-server
> 
>     and are now looking for people esp. from blender, but also other
>     platforms, that would be interested in a sandboxing project around
>     integrating open source ai in image editing processes. Not entirely
>     sure what that entails but we'll see as we go. If nothing else it
>     might be a way to cut through the ai hype. At the same time - if adobe
>     sensei ends up shifting terrain for image editing, and users
>     expectations of what image editing actually is, it can't hurt to be
>     able to point to open alternatives.
> 
>     Context is that at lgm some of the people working at arts academies
>     got together (this was in addition to ginger's mtg, which I
>     unfortunately missed) to cooperate in a cross-organizational working
>     group on open tech to push for the use of foss in our research and
>     education. and yes we now that this is not new and that others have
>     been doing this  (88 columns), but onboarding new new people might
>     push ecosystem boundaries a bit.
> 
>     So if you think ai and open tech go together let us know to share, get
>     a better sense of this emerging space, etc.
> 
>     best,
> 
>     Soenke
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