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Dream Machine
AI and the Real World
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The integration of Large Language models in AI has sparked a global revolution, epitomized by the recent release of ChatGpt 4.0, which promises increased efficiency and streamlined workflows. Yet, as these models evolve, we’re left pondering whether they’ll lead us to a utopia of shorter workweeks and enhanced living standards or a landscape fraught with complexity.
While AI offers immense potential for proactive healthcare, educational advancements, and combating financial crime, it also raises pressing concerns around discrimination, erosion of personal freedoms, and the need for greater accountability. Can these challenges be addressed effectively? How far has AI progressed, and what are its limitations?
The authors of the graphic novel Dream Machine: Real or AI have delved into these pressing questions.
Join Appupen, one of the authors of the book, in discussion with Francis Rousseaux, an expert in AI, Machine Learning, and Digital Humanities and also the French representative at the think tank iSPIRIT, as they engage in conversation with Digital humanities expert and innovator Padmini Ray Murray.
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Appupen
Appupen is an artist and comics creator with a wide range of interests and styles in his published work. He uses his comics and satire for socio-political commentary and mythological world building. He is the creator of the Halahala series of comics, detailing adventures of the mind in an original mythical world inspired by plants. He lives in southern Rashtria, in Halahala.
Francis Rousseaux
Francis Rousseaux is engineer and full professor at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France), researcher in computer science (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Digital Humanities), associate professor at Goldsmiths College — University of London, and author of 200 scientific publications — involving AI in crisis management, territorial intelligence, air traffic control, smart cities/industries/agriculture, ecosystems discovery, music browsing and retrieval.
Associate researcher at IRCAM-CNRS (Centre Pompidou) and President of the Computer Science Chapter of the France section of the IEEE between 2000 and 2019, he participated in numerous European collaborative research projects, and was a member of the Collège International de Philosophie.
Between 2019 and 2021, he served as deputy rector of Galatasaray University in Istanbul, a prestigious public university in Turkey with 5,000 students.
He settled in Bangalore in October 2023 as a delegate from the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to cooperate, as a Fellow of the Indian think tank iSPIRT Foundation, on several Indian digital public infrastructure and artificial intelligence regulation projects.
Padmini Ray Murray
Dr. Padmini Ray Murray is a feminist researcher, maker and the founder-director of Design Beku – a collective of researchers, artists, technologists and designers who work towards making design and digital practice more locally rooted, contextually relevant and ethical. Design Beku is a design justice and digital rights collective that advocates designing with communities, and not for.
Her most recent published research includes “Are We Together”, a report co-authored with Digital Futures Lab and Policy exploring how low English proficiency users navigate the digital in India and Africa; a report on the role design might play in ensuring digital self determination for people with disabilities, and a co-authored report with Point of View and Digital Futures Lab exploring participatory design methodologies for use cases implementing AI.
