Things that caught my attention
A few things that caught my attention over the last week or so. Some of them appear pretty wild even for 21st century standards, but I guess that’s…
Tag: research
Experimenting with DALL-E 2
For a while now I’ve had the chance to experiment a little with DALL-E 2, Open AI’s new AI system that “can create realistic images and art from…
AI as a forcing function for societal debate
We see that the spread of AI systems is effectively a forcing function for societal debates: Underlying conflicts are forced to the foreground because these systems will have…
Web3 Is Going Great, or Is It?
web3isgoinggreat.com is a pretty funny overview of the mishaps and shenanigans of the web3 / crypto scene and products. It shows just how much is going wrong in the…
Launching the Getting Tech Right podcast
Getting Tech Right is a series of interviews exploring issues around how technology shapes our society and how to think about these issues better. This podcast is part…
6 Investment Hypotheses for Foundations & Public Funding Organizations
A lot of institutional funding goes to established partners and towards well-understood problems. And that’s good! But it also leaves some critical blank spots that are underfunded — especially…
New article: On Open Source Hardware and Public Interest Technology
Over at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society‘s Digital Society Blog, a new article I co-wrote with Dr. Stephan Bohn and Prof. Dr. Hendrik Send just went…