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Giota Alevizou

@giotita.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Digital Humanities & Culture @KingsDH | New Book out in early 2026, ‘The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias & Authority in the Digital Age’ Polity | profile: www.kcl.ac.uk/people/giota-alevizou

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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Massive thanks to @textaural.bsky.social for the invite to talk at the awesome campus of UofAmsterdam New Media Dept, for the hospitality & new plans
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Looking fwd to giving a talk at Amsterdam Uni next month & having inspirational convos w/ @textaural.bsky.social & colleagues
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
From encyclopedias to platforms, Giota Alevizou’s ‘The Web of Knowledge’ reveals how struggles over knowledge authority underpin today’s debates about technology, democracy, and public life. Out now! @giotita.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Today, my book The Web of Knowledge by @politybooks.bsky.social is out in the US and is accompanied by @darthvetter.bsky.social 's brilliant and thought-provoking review published in IJOC. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📘 'Authority is negotiated. Plurality is procedural. Disagreement is productive.' The Web of Knowledge by Dr @giotita.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social looks at how encyclopedias have evolved and how they continue to structure what becomes visible and credible online ⬇️
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'Wikipedia is under political attack': new book explores the future of knowledge in the AI era | King's College London
Dr Giota Alevizou’s new book, The Web of Knowledge, shines a spotlight on how encyclopedias transform the act of knowing.
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Who governs what we know? tinyurl.com/48xfe2nh Made my 1st substack from booklaunch #KnowledgeCommons #AIGovernance #DigitalHumanities #Wikipedia25 #Encyclomedia Thanks @elenasimperl.bsky.social for inspiring me to start there :)
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Who governs what we know?
The launch of The Web of Knowledge opened a conversation that feels more urgent by the day: about Wikipedia, AI, and the conditions under which knowledge stays accountable, contestable, and public.
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Launch of the Digital Investigations Lab at King’s College London: Explore how investigations are evolving across journalism, research & design in the digital landscape. Panel + Q&A + drinks. 🗓 24 March, 6:30–8:30pm 📍 Waterloo Campus Speakers & tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
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Select tickets – Digital Investigations Lab – Launch Event – KCL Waterloo Campus, Franklin Wilkins Building, room FWB 1.11
Digital Investigations Lab – Launch Event – KCL Waterloo Campus, Franklin Wilkins Building, room FWB 1.11, Tue 24 Mar 2026 - To launch King’s College London’s new Digital Investigations Lab (DIL), we ...
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My amazing colleague @elenasimperl.bsky.social wrote this sharp, short reflection following my book launch last week. 'If we want AI systems that are trustworthy and equitable, we must study how Wikipedia succeeded and failed in governing its own knowledge commons'.
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The web of knowledge
From people to machines and back
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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🧩 Who gets to define knowledge today? Join us on 11 March for the launch of Dr Giota Alevizou's @giotita.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social 'The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age' (@politybooks.bsky.social, 2026). Register to attend ⬇️
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The Web of Knowledge: Authority, Encyclopedias, and Power in the Digital Age | King's College London
Join us for a book launch event for Dr Giota Alevizou’s The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age.
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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🗣️ 'Isolating children from social media is likely to cut them off from a lot of support and help that they need.' Listen to Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast speak about social media ban for under-16s. Listen now, from 2:07:51 🎧⬇️
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Radio Scotland Breakfast - 16/02/2026 - BBC Sounds
News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather and big name interviews.
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📘 My new book, The #WebofKnowledge, is on its way. tinyurl.com/encylop It follows the long arc from encyclopedic institutions to digital platforms and emerging AI systems — not to mourn lost expertise, but to ask how authority is reorganised, governed, and contested under platform capitalism.
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The Web of Knowledge: Encylopedias and Authority in the Digital Age
The Web of Knowledge: Encylopedias and Authority in the Digital Age, The encyclopedia—a medium rooted in enlightenment visions of intellectual rationality—has expanded in scope, scale, and popularity ...
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Hallelujah www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
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Erasmus live updates: Scheme to return for UK students from 2027
The EU provides funding under the scheme for people to study, train or volunteer in other European countries for up to a year.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I and @photini.bsky.social have a new publication The article reconceptualises London as ‘A Learnt City’, a dynamic learning ecosystem shaped through digital mediation, affective experience, and embodied practices. Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15... #DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway). 📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract 🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)! 📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after) 📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026 🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #AcademicJobs
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Nothing better than students casually dropping gold in a podcast—Digital Futures MA voices, you’re sharp, thoughtful, and a joy to hear. Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Not intentionality on AI preferences, but lots of imagination needed esp as my book w/ @polity will be added there in the autumn…can’t wait
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Very happy about this pod on our #digitalfuturesMA hosted by our own @aleexgreen.bsky.social
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Is there a future for a public AI?
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
WOKE?! Come to our panel on Digital Futures of Diversity on 23 June at King's College London as part of @kings-dfi.bsky.social 'Living Well with Technology' series, with @birgitneunews.bsky.social , @lewisiwu.bsky.social, & @nessakeddo.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
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Digital Futures of Diversity
How can we design and implement digital systems that genuinely enhance diversity rather than simply digitising existing inequalities?
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Andy Powell @mrandypowell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Strawberry moon, Butlers Wharf. @se1.news @shad-thames.bsky.social
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Launching London Tech Week, the CEO of Nvidia has just remarked on the UK’s ‘fantastic universities and research communities’. That’s great — but around 90 of the UK’s 166 universities are currently making job cuts. Half are closing courses.
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🎙️ Series 2 of the Media Industries Podcast hosted by our colleague @aorcuncan.bsky.social‬ and Paul McDonald is here! This season dives deep into AI + the media industries. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... #AI #Media
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Media Industries and AI: An Introduction - Orçun Can and Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Media Industries Podcast · Episode
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 09/06/2025
There are only two sides right now. One side has tanks and drones and data and tear gas. The other side has solidarity and that’s it. That’s what we have. A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Really proud of our @kingsdh.bsky.social student posting a reflective post on last week’s event on #AIandLiterature chaired by @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
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Alexandra Greenfield @aleexgreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Last week, I attended the launch of the Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal book at King’s College London, hosted by the ‪@ kingscmci.bsky.social‬ the ‪@ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Network. #digitalfutures #technoskepticism #KCL
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Alexandra Greenfield @aleexgreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This aligns with the ethos of the #DigitaFuturesMA @kingsartshums.bsky.social, which explores how to engage critically with emerging technologies. I would definitely look into applying this for my MA: tinyurl.com/munhw4hr
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Digital Futures MA (online, part-time)
Understand how to apply to study an online master’s degree with King’s College London. We’ll support you throughout the application process. Apply today.
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, however the use of #socialmedia platforms is not. A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...
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Study finds links between social media and loneliness depend on the app
New research finds that although overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, use of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is not.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
👏 On 6 June, join us, @kingsdh.bsky.social ‬and ‪@kings-dfi.bsky.social‬ as we celebrate Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ‬'s appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society. ⏰ 18:00-20:00 📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Register via the link below ⤵️
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You Autocomplete Me: Our intimate and emotional encounters with technology
Please join us for this Inaugural Lecture as we celebrate Professor Kate Devlin's appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
another good one from the german guy who uploads 360 degree panoramas to wikipedia
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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🪄 Few tickets left for tonight's live magic show! Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️ 🎟️ Book now ⤵️
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Magic, Minds, and the Mysteries of AI
Step into a world where magic and technology collide in a fascinating exploration of AI and deception.
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We are spoiled with e Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...
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Israel just launched its offensive to permanently ‘conquer’ Gaza as Trump’s Arab Gulf tour wraps up
Israel announced the initial phase of “Gideon’s chariots,” the expanded ground invasion to permanently “conquer” Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and ...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
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Value of social and cultural infrastructure ‘risks being neglected in decision-making' without new measurement framework - Bennett Institute for Public Policy
New framework for measuring the value of social and cultural infrastructure will more effectively highlight its crucial role in improving wellbeing and economic growth.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Amazing and timely report by my wonderful colleague @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social
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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL. Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Once again, the Tony Blair Institute mistakes generative AI for magic beans.
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Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves @imaginaries.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🔥 Techno-authoritarianism has been brewing since at least the 1970s 🔥 In this new paper, @arturocastro.bsky.social and I trace how neoliberal theories—distrust in the state, private money, and the fetish of decentralisation—grounded the technical principles of contemporary cryptocurrencies.
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Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies are sociotechnical objects encoding the visions and interpretative frameworks of the communities of practice that ideated and designed them. This paper explores and presents the no...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Just out ➡️ The design-ification of future making: uncertainty and divination in contemporary business discourse @ulissess.bsky.social & Karl Palmas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The design-ification of future making: uncertainty and divination in contemporary business discourse
This article investigates how design-oriented approaches have made their way into contemporary business discourse. It does so by exploring how the figures of ‘the strategist' and ‘the entrepreneur'...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
✨jobs✨ 20 AI+ Academic Fellowships - including for arts, humanities and social researchers: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
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King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A needless and meaningless death because some dickhead decided to drive when they couldn't.
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Strand crash victim Aalia Mahomed 'a beautiful soul', family says
Aalia's family have paid tribute to her, calling her a
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI. 📅 26 February | 5PM 📍 King’s College London | Free event 🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... #AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia
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Select tickets – Stephanie Diepeveen: Power, Representation and GenAI: A critical exploration of AI imaginaries across language and place – Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
The Global Digital Cultures Research Group in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL hosts Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, speakin...
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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Zuckerberg’s swerve: how diversity went from being a Meta priority to getting cancelled
Meta once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity. After those aspirations peaked in 2019, the company scuttled them altogether
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What does it mean for the UK to follow the US and not sign the French AI Summit Statement? Blog post on the descent of global AI policy in to WWE-style showmanship, and where that leaves the UK.
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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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The Paradox of Music Discovery, the Spotify Way
A new book explores the company’s commitment to shaping what its users hear.
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King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Researchers from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and Université Côte d'Azur have investigated a new approach that could usher in a new era for training AI. Pruning the neural network during training could make AI more efficient, sustainable and accessible. Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-app...
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New approach to training AI could significantly reduce time and energy involved
Pruning neural networks during training could make AI more efficient, sustainable and accessible
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