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The past months many people have seen many legislative attacks on our identities (by the UK Supreme Court, Donald Trump’s executive orders, Hungary’s constitutional amendment), freedom of speech, and freedom to gather and demonstrate (arrest Mahmoud Khalil, Harvard funding freeze for failing to “limit activism on campus”). Just to grab a few examples of the top of my mind, I could not possibly be…
AI technology exists and is widely available. Anyone can access the repositories, download the weights, read the papers of Arxiv. There is no putting it back in the box, we will have to live in a world with AI tools. So, the question becomes how can we shape these tools. This piece will detail some of the current methods and philosophies of guiding these mathematical heaps towards humane uses.
2022 November 30th OpenAI released ChatGPT and with this launching machine learning/AI into the popular consciousness. Since then machine learning permeated more and more of people’s lives. Breaking out from the niches of industry to a truly ridiculous array of applications as corporates from big-tech to bakeries rushed to ride the hype. More importantly people are using AI in all sorts of ways.…
Bike Kitchens, at their core, are about empowerment. They teach people to understand their bikes, work on them, and regain confidence in their ability to move through the world. As I spent more time fixing bikes and teaching others, I began to notice surprising parallels with my academic work in explainable AI (XAI).