This article from the BBC by Jane Wakefield reports on a “psychopathic” algorithm created at MIT “as part of an experiment to see what training AI on data from ‘the dark corners of the net’ would do to its world view.” The algorithm is trained to interpret abstract shapes. Trained on images of people dying, Norman (named after Norman Bates)…
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Responding to the Technophobes and the Technophiles
For our weekly meetings with Dr. Robertson, the DH fellows each find an interesting new post about digital humanities to share with the group. Over the course of the year, we’re supposed to track some sort of theme or trend. Last year, I focused on posts and projects that work to Indigenize and/or decolonize digital humanities. This year, I’ve followed…
DH Read: “Resistance, Racialized Violence, and Database Design”
In a post on the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship’s site, Sarah Whitwell explains how she defines resistance for use in a research database. From the post: As Matthew Davis explains, a database is useful as a methodological tool because it does not permit ambiguity. This means that all decisions must be documented and justified. To create the schema for…
Summer Roundup: Making Arguments Using Digital History
With my summer as full-time Editor-in-Chief of Digital Humanities Now coming to an end, I thought it would be fitting and useful (at least for myself) to identify some kind of theme for the summer and write up a list of Editors’ Choice pieces that fall into that theme (sort of like I did here for the academic year). I didn’t…
