Can't wait to visit SDSU Tueday and give a talk on Critical Code Studies and AI! Thanks for inviting me, Jessica Pressman!
Mark C Marino
I am not a bot.
I teach writing at the University of Southern California where I run the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. I write and research digital literature and am the Communication Director for the Electronic Literature Organization.
My review of Love Game by Last Call Theatre is up on Medium. TLDR: a roaring success! Hat tip to Michael DiNardo , the cast, and the whole creative team!
https://markcmarino.medium.com/caught-up-in-a-love-game-ef2eeb75d217
Great news: I was able to do a fix to get "Marginalia in the Library of Babel," a story written across webpages, back up in most browsers. Two pages still take a while to load the annotations but they eventually show up. Thanks Jessica Pressman for encouraging me to restore it.
Marlene (Evelina) and Rob (Fr. Greg Gee Boyle) met up with me at Homegirl Cafe for another hearwarming heartrending chat of the sort this place seems to elicit. Don't miss their performances in Homeboys April 3-6 at Casa0101. Free tickets https://bit.ly/homeboyscasa25
What can the code of open source predictive policing software tell us about the tool?
See our new article in DHQ:
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1/000757/000757.html
#machinelearning #critcode
#criticalai #artificialintelligence
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I have finished "Type Help", a database-style thinky narrative game which I can't think of anything to say about it that isn't spoilery. It sucked me in hard for two straight evenings. Excellent stuff.
Check out:
Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software
by Sarah Ciston, Zach Mann, Jeremy Douglass & Me
in Digital Humanities Quarterly
#antiracist #critcode #machinelearning #artificialintelligence
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1/000757/000757.html
Delighted to see Hallucinate This! make a little cameo in this epic collection of computer-generated texts collected by Nick Montfort and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. Such a great anthology.
#Artificialintelligence #computer-generated
Here's all about AI Research tools with some thoughts about Bedazzlement in this workshop I ran with Jessica Piazza this week.
Just snagged my copy of Play Frames by Celia Pearce! I can't wait to find out the answer to the subtitle: How do we know we are playing?
Cloud of Poems (or 诗云) by Liu Cixin is my new favorite short story about AI generated text.
When the richest man in the US requests COBOL source code from the treasury, it is time for some critical code studies interventions, David Berry suggested to me.
read about the coup de code: https://www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-the-trump-musk-treasury-payments-crisis-of-2025-not-read-only-access-anymore/
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If you want to chat with a faithful recreation of the first chatbot, try this one, created by Team ELIZA superstar Anthony Hay!
"World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades!" coverage of Team ELIZA in New Scientist! feat. Jeff Shrager and David Berry
Looking forward to hearing the ideas and meeting the participants of today's USC AI Summit, our campus-wide discussion of Navigating AI in the Classroom. Katherine Brichacek and I are co-organizing this one day event.
https://calendar.usc.edu/event/navigating-ai-in-the-classroom-summit
Today is the deadline to submit to #ELO25! Don't miss out!
https://eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-elo25-25-toronto-july-11-13-due-jan-5-2025/
Just 2 days left to submit to #ELO25, our in-person conference in Toronto and Waterloo.
https://eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-elo25-25-toronto-july-11-13-due-jan-5-2025/
If we can't AI-Proof our college writing courses, what can we do? Here's one idea I like from Jeremy Douglass.
https://markcmarino.medium.com/stop-talking-about-ai-proofing-courses-3354c87b16f9
A hot take for the start of term: "Stop Talking about AI-Proofing Courses" with some ideas from Jeremy Douglass and others.
https://markcmarino.medium.com/stop-talking-about-ai-proofing-courses-3354c87b16f9
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