Category: Data & Visualization
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Review: The Atlas of AI
This volume sets out to explore how artificial intelligence is produced, winding its way through the various historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that inform and shape this process.
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Chapter Review of “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” by Kate Crawford | Chapter 3: Data.
Chapter 3 focuses on the pivotal role Data – which the author explains in the driving force of AI today – plays in AI systems. In this chapter, Crawford critiques the extraction, methods, and use of data in AI systems (mainly computer vision systems), highlighting the complexities and challenges associated with the widespread use of […]
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Review: Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” | Chapter 4: Classification
In the introductory pages of The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Kate Crawford describes artificial intelligence as a political “registry of power” (p. 8) that is simultaneously symbolic and material in nature. Stemming from the fifteenth-century term for describing an official account, “registry” implies an essence of formality […]
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Review: Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” | Chapter 6: State
In its January 2024 AI forecast, AI think tank and Forbes contributor Cognitive World declared that, according to Google Trends, “even with all of the hype that AI has gotten in the past decade or so,” internet searches around the topic have “positively exploded in the search interest in the past twelve months” (Schmelzer 2024). […]
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Review: Chapter 2 of Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism. The MIT Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780262358521 ISBN: 0262358522 Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 2 Reviewed by: Hannah Mendro, hsmendro@uw.edu Chapter 2 of Data Feminism, “Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach,” focuses its attention on the creation and development of projects which gather and work with data. In a world where data […]