Intro to AI: How Machines Think [London]

Intro to AI: How Machines Think

To kick-off Cycle Two: The Machine & Me, we will begin Intro to AI: How Machines Think, a creative hands-on workshop co-led with designer and educator, Laurent Yee.

This session invites participants to take part in a manual data tagging + image generation exercise to better understand what machine learning is and how bias occurs during this process.

Moving forward, our educational programming will be ticketed to allow us to pay collaborators and cover some of the materials cost. It’s still way under what we need but this is a first step into making this work more sustainable. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can between £5-12 with a few free tickets reserved for those who are currently unwaged or cannot afford to attend otherwise. We do not want this to cause a financial barrier to anyone so even if the limited free tickets run out, please email us.

How is this going to go?

We will start with a brief presentation and then move into groups for collaboration and discussion. Then, using printed artworks, we will take you through how images are categorised, creating ‘rules’ and producing new knowledge based off of an existing dataset. No familiarity or experience with AI or human-computer interaction is needed!

Please reach out to us via email at ZnV0dXJlaW52ZW50aW9uc2xhYiB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t or DM @futureinventions.lab on instagram with any questions.

There will be soft drinks and pizza but please feel free to bring your own dinner.

Refunds: This is a small team and so we cannot accommodate refunds but if plans change, let us know as soon as you can and we can add your ticket to the waitlist or share it online to try and pass it on to someone else

Info: We will begin with a short relaxed intro to the history of AI, different forms of AI and a simplified explainer of how the technology works

Info: Here, we will work in small groups to identify common threads between groups of images, name these rules and then draw/sketch a new image based on this set of rules.In between, we will use prompts to encourage discussion around this process and reflect on where bias might occur

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