Cathryn PloehnAI & Culture: To Infinity and BeyondThis week, your response is more open-ended (for the reading response) and should include what you’re interested in pursuing for your…Apr 7, 2020Apr 7, 2020
Cathryn PloehnAI & Culture: from Sci-Fi to Untold AIPart 1, Your mission: Read the chapters from Shedroff/Noessel Make it So, and then watch the 8 short movie clips in the Google Drive…Mar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
Cathryn PloehnAI & Society: TrustTrust is an underlying theme of this class — do we trust the algorithm? Do we trust AI? Do the effects of AI cause us to not trust our…Feb 10, 2020Feb 10, 2020
Cathryn PloehnExperimental capture: A Typology MachineA process blog for Golan Levin and Nica Ross’ Spring 2020 Experimental Capture course at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie…Feb 8, 2020Feb 8, 2020
Cathryn PloehnOntological data visualization, or: visualizing for the fluid, feminine, and the embodiedA research through design masters thesis at Carnegie Mellon’s School of DesignFeb 5, 2020Feb 5, 2020
Cathryn PloehnAI & Society: Fairness and BiasWe’ve been talking about bias and technology. This week, we’re going to look at race, bias, and fairness in more detail. We’ll also…Feb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
Cathryn PloehnAI & Society: People, Labor & WorkThis week, we’re reading about how AI and its related technologies impact people — people as workers, laborers, job seekers. We’re also…Jan 27, 2020Jan 27, 2020
Cathryn PloehnAI & Society: What is intelligence?Part 1, first paragraph: Quickly define general and narrow AI (from Meredith Broussard’s chapter), machine learning (using Janelle Shane’s…Jan 20, 2020Jan 20, 2020
Cathryn PloehninResearch for/into/through design(ing)Visualizing for the rhizome: How do we design data visualizations that embrace bodies?The problemNov 19, 2019Nov 19, 2019
Cathryn PloehnQuest pilot, take 2This is one part of an ongoing series of posts documenting the process and learnings that our team goes through over the semester as we…Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019