Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
08.08.2025 08:42
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Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
So is my #V&A blog post on collecting an early object of #genAI and how popular magazines help us tell stories about more intangible things in #museumcollections:
www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...
My #V&A article on 10 objects of #artificialintelligence in the collection is now online! Read it here: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-h... #ai #digitalart #digitaldesign
Had such a great time last week presenting on #digitalcollecting at @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social DRN and ECRN symposium on British Art and Architecture in the Digital Age. So insightful for how people are thinking about what is digital—and what is British—today. #phdsky #digitalart #arthistorians
Something about it being specifically the founder of Uber thinking he's advancing quantum physics through convos with the chatbot
Loved visiting the new Sound and Vision galleries at @mediamuseum.bsky.social this weekend, and finally seeing the absolute unit meme #acquisition IRL 🙌🏻
How to be a best-selling British nature writer: write memoir, misery memoir. Make as much of it up as you need.
(That old LiveJournal classic of mysteriously coming and going terminal disease.)
A fine investigation by @chloehadj.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Excited to speak at @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social DRN/ECRN Symposium next Friday in Bristol.
My talk on the “non-object” comes from my #PhD research at the #V&A, and advocates for tracing uncollectibility, or the limits of #digitalcollecting, in research and curatorial practice.
bit.ly/4l717v6
Great visit to the new V&A East Storehouse today. Loved the space, once my brain figured out what was a solid surface vs not!
Appreciate the approach to sharing museum working processes and activities, and the new film commissions.
Also sharing this #digipres #PhD placement at #V&A developing a digital repository for the V&A's Research Institute: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Deadline 30 May #PhDSky #MuseumSky #digitalpreservation #digitalhumanities
Last two days to apply to this 3-month PhD placement in #born-digital #collections with the V&A's Design and Digital curatorial team vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Deadline 30 May #PhDSky #MuseumSky #V&A #digitalcollecting #contemporarycollecting
Make tech bros rewatch the specific episode of Black Mirror that they are trying to create—Clockwork Orange style—until they understand the point of the episode.
Had a blast with V&A Design & Digital curatorial team. Now you can too! Funded #PhD students apply for this 3mo placement working with digital collections: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Apply by 30 May. Please share!
#PhDSky #MuseumSky #V&A #digitalculturalheritage #digitalcollections
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
Lost in AGI dread and gleeful anticipation is the fact that, while the technologies driving the discussion around AGI are novel and new, the stories we're hearing about them are not. The AGI story today's elites embrace is a retelling of the AI story embraced by the elites of yesteryear and the automation story of their predecessors. It's fair to say we're in uncharted technological territory, but that is also a truism. Where else would we be? As workers or as politicians, regulators, industrialists, or members of the curious general public, we have all previously confronted technological breakthroughs and moments of political and economic uncertainty. All those moments created opportunities for narrative inver tion, too. In its more cynical deployments, AGI, like Al before it, is a marketing story masquerading as a descriptive term; it's a bid to rebrand - and narrow down and direct - our collective idea of the future.
AGI, like G-less Al, automation, and even mechanization, are indeed stories, but they're also sequels: This time, the technology isn't just inconceivable and inevitable; it's anthropomorphized and given a will of its own. If mechanization conjured images of factories, automation conjured images of factories without people, and AI conjured humanoid machine assistants, AGI and ASI conjure an economy, and a wider world, in which humans are either made limitlessly rich and powerful by superhuman machines or dominated and subjugated (or perhaps even killed) by them (Indu trial Revolution 3: The Robot Awakens). In imagining centralized machine authoritarianism in the future, AGI creates a sort of authoritarian, exclusionary discourse now. A narrative emerges in which the decisions of AGI stakeholders - Al firms, their investors, and maybe a few government leaders - are all that matter. The rest of us inhabit the roles of subject and audience but not author.
AGI is a story, not a technology nymag.com/intelligence...
I am giving a (free!) talk at the V&A Museum on 3 June with @shreyagupta.bsky.social @libertypaterson.bsky.social & Niti Acharya, on the history of institutional collecting. Sign up to attend here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/Yq2NZK...
Such a good time at #BDCAM25 conference this week. Fantastic to see the global turnout, and the range of important work being done. Had so much fun training an AI model, learning about oral history work, community archives, and some e-lit/video games I now need to play!
Really excited to share the details of this fully funded PhD collaborative studentship with V&A looking at stored collections and V&A East Storehouse. Take a look 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy... @drmorgan.bsky.social
RIP Jonathan Sterne - most influential sound studies scholar of the past 20 years, renowned mentor, dedicated colleague.
Finally got the courage to revisit and print my thesis after submitting a while ago… seeing it there feels like a lot of work! Terrifying and immensely satisfying 🙌🏻
Hadn't even read the whole thing when I wrote that - later bits on researcher status in Stakeholder section even better! Would reference it all if I was actually a historian 😃
Woo congratulations, Shreya, Surya, Libby and Niti! And THANK YOU. This is so important, and what we CDPers have needed for ages. P.9 is exactly what I've been wrestling with for 3 years, and what I was trying to articulate in my methodology. So will reference for sure!