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In 2022 I learned about FAIR data, the movement to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible. One of UiB’s brilliant research librarians, Jenny Ostrup, patiently h...

https://jilltxt.net/wikidata-as-research-tool/

Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed ...

https://jilltxt.net/triple-book-talk-watch-james-dobson-jussi-parikka-and-me-discuss-our-2023-books/

Finally I can share what I’ve been working on! I absolutely loved writing this book, taking the time to dig deep into histories, ideas and theories that I think really help understand how machi...

https://jilltxt.net/my-book-on-machine-vision-is-out/

Last night I attended the OpenAI Forum Welcome Reception at OpenAI’s new offices in San Francisco. The Forum is a recently launched initiative from OpenAI that is meant to be “a community des...

https://jilltxt.net/visiting-openai/

I’m thrilled to announce another publication from our European Research Council (ERC)-funded research project on Machine Vision: Gabriele de Setaand Anya Shchetvina‘s paper analysing how ...

https://jilltxt.net/four-visual-registers-for-imaginaries-of-machine-vision/

Whenever I give talks about ChatGPT and LLMs, whether to ninth graders, businesses or journalists, I meet people who are hungry for information, who really want to understand this new technology....

https://jilltxt.net/do-people-flock-to-talks-about-chatgpt-because-they-are-scared/

Having your own words processed and restated can help you improve your thinking and your writing. That’s one reason why talking with someone about your ideas can help you clarify your thoughts...

https://jilltxt.net/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-get-past-writers-block/

Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot released by OpenAI, and I’ve been fascinated by how much it does well and how it still gets a lot wrong. Chat...

https://jilltxt.net/right-now-chatgpt-is-multilingual-but-monocultural-but-its-learning-your-values/

A few weeks ago Meta released Galactica, a language model that generates scientific papers based on a prompt you type in. They put it online and invited people to try it out, but had to remove it...

https://jilltxt.net/generating-research-papers-reveals-our-cliches/

I’m at the Piksel festival listening to Thomas Levine’s artist talk about his data visualisations – or uh, sonifications – in R. He made data music from the iris dataset that is used in s...

https://jilltxt.net/making-music-using-data-analysis-in-r/