Author: LaMari Sutton
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AI Ethics in Music
For my final project, I explored AI ethics and music, specifically as it pertained to copyright infringement, right of publicity, and fair use. Here I included a sample of an AI generated song by Musicfy. I used Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” as the song. In some parts of the audio, I uploaded clips…
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A Promising Future with Virtual Reality
From watching The Matrix (1999) this week, I became interested in exploring virtual reality (VR) spaces and AI in our modern time today. There has been a lot of media coverage and research on VR and gaming for recreational use, but I wanted to find other sources where VR could actually be useful in a…
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What happens when AI fail?
In Louisville, Kentucky, many parents were worried and upset when their kids didn’t arrive home from school until around 10 at night. Most spent hours trying to locate their children while others waited desperately at the school hoping to seek answers from administrators on what was occurring. Where were their children? Jefferson County Public Schools…
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An Interesting Proposition
In “Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society,” Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman propose a list of several possible explanations of how AI could serve as a digital mind in society which could carry great benefits and cause major harms. Their proposal is divided into ten sections: consciousness and metaphysics, respecting AI interests, security and stability,…
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Where Am I?!
From watching Blade Runner The Final Cut (2007), I was extremely fascinated by the setting, especially the city and the off world. It was a bit difficult to follow at the start of the film, and I vividly remember questioning where am I? Nevertheless, it was beautiful to watch and interesting to see how the…
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Equity A.I.
*I want to preface this blog post by acknowledging the length of the video above. It is extensive, but I highly recommend watching it in its entirety as the information provided is very insightful and greatly applies to our class discussion of A.I. and race. It is no question that AI has the potential to…
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Photo Series: A.I., Professionalism, and Hairstyles
For my midterm project, I explored racial biases embedded in Artificial Intelligence (AI) generative models. I generated a series of images using dreamAI in which I specifically focused on the areas of professionalism and hairstyles. I started with a broad search of the term professionalism using the realistic v2 art style. Then, I narrowed the…
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Concerned with AI?
In “Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI,” Ben Tarnoff explores the life of Joseph Weizenbaum as he began to develop concerns about the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanity. In 1966, Weizenbaum became the first person to invent a chatbot which he named Eliza. Eliza’s role was to…
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RGB IN EX MACHINA
In Ex Machina (2014), the power dynamic of colors is situated throughout the film as seen through its setting and characters. The primary colors represented are blue, green, and red. While their characteristics conflict, it is important to consider how these differences convey meaning for the overall plot. Blue The symbolic nature of blue represents…
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The Success of AI
In “Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works,” Chloe Xiang explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and their failed ability to explain biased outputs. These processes are deemed opaque as the model itself is a black box. As Xiang explains, it yields an output in which scientists generally accept because it tends to be what “they…