An evening of slideshows & fellowship for the AI-avoidant.
Date: TBA
Location: TBA
Sick of living in the dreams of prepper CEOs?
Feeling doomy about spending the next AI winter in a chatbot cult?
Suspicious that the healthcare implications of AlphaFold might be overshadowed by the broader corrosion of liberal democracy?
Actually pretty optimistic, but would like a break from the hype?
Many art & technology meetups have an uncritical undertone. This one is politely opinionated.
This means: any presented work must be entirely made without AI, unless AI is used to critique itself (efficacy, power consumption, safety e.t.c).
This does not mean: being rude, patronising, or elitist towards the AI powerusers among us.
All are welcome. Luddites & cyberwitches are actively encouraged.
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There will be talks: open-projector style. 1-10 minutes each.
There will be breaks: with time to exchange details, ask questions, introduce yourself to that cool person across the room with the T-shirt of that band you adore.
Some talk prompts for your organic intelligence:
If you are wondering if your talk idea is good - yes it is great!!
Say hi at: contact(at)breakingthegloom(dot)com
Note: AI is loosely defined as anything that would boost (however minutely) the cultural validity, or literal valuation, of a self-identifying "AI" product or company.
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Dreams about what the future could-be are amplified and realised by capital, but equally: they can't be totally destroyed by it.
So, for a few hours, lets pretend that everyone has stopped buying into this AI thing.
The governments have concluded: we can't afford to waste the electricity, the land, the water.
The people are disgusted: the mass theft or their labor, their creativity, their genomes.
The university administrators have run the numbers: tick-box educations, into careers of configuring off-the-shelf software,
doesn't make a productive society, just an automation-shaped hole.
The investors are... busy falling for the next thing.
It's the AI winter, and this time it's going to outlive our grandchildren.
All we have is our discipline, our craft, our curiosity.
What have we been up-to?
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