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Remar ks by: Dr. Hugh Gusterson\, followed by open discussion
“Alg
orithms are not autonomous technical objects\, but complex sociotechnical s
ystems.”
(Seaver 2018\, 378)
The Digital Culture Lab invites you to the inaugural event in the Digital Literacy Conversation Series to disc uss how generative artificial intelligence (AI) may impact our research\, t eaching\, creative practices\, and communities in general.
“Generativ e AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that involves creating systems that can generate new and original data or content\, such as images\, music \, text\, or videos. These systems use machine learning algorithms to learn from a given dataset and generate new output that is similar to the origin al data.” This definition\, for example\, is generated by ChatGPT\, a gener ative AI and language model developed by OpenAI\, which is designed to gene rate human-like responses to natural language prompts. Among all generative AI tools\, ChatGPT is perhaps the most well-known\, but there are many oth er tools that are used commercially (e.g.\, text-to-video generators like S ynthesia) or recreationally (at least now\; e.g.\, text-to-image tools like DALL-E 2). Like its less generative\, but more bureaucratically establishe d algorithmic predecessors (Besteman and Gusterson 2019)\, generative AI ha s legal\, economic\, societal\, cultural\, and educational consequences (Ba rassi 2022). Unless we gain and build experience alongside the technology a nd learn how and why generative AI works in the way it does\, we cannot tru ly work with it (Jørgensen\, Gad\, and Winthereik 2023).
We will open our first Digital Literacy Conversation with Dr. Gusterson’s rema rks about algorithms and what anthropology can contribute to critiques of a lgorithmic decision making. This will be followed by a discussion of the ch allenges and opportunities generative AI may create for and in our fields. Topics that we may wish to consider include:
Barassi\, Veronica. 2022. “Algorithmic Viol ence in Everyday Life and the Role of Media Anthropology.” In The Routl edge Companion to Media Anthropology. Edited by Elisabetta Costa\, Pat ricia G. Lange\, Nell Haynes\, and Jolynna Sinanan\, 481-491. London: Routl edge.
Besteman\, Catherine\, and Gusterson\, Hugh\, eds. 2019. Li fe by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World. Chicago\, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Jørgensen\, Bastian\, Gad Christophe r\, and Winthereik Brit R. 2023. “Organising Artificial Intelligence and Re presenting Work.” In An Anthropology of Futures and Teachnologies. Edited b y Debora Lanzeni\, Karen Waltorp\, Sarah Pink\, and Rachel C. Smith\, 93-10 4. New York\, NY: Routledge.
Seaver\, Nick. 2018\, “What S hould an Anthropology of Algorithm Do?” Cultural Anthropology. 33: 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1 4506/ca33.3.04
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