Category: digital humanities
-
20 years of blogging!
In Septemeber 2003, an experiment began that involved intertwining the tangible experiences of life with the vast, intangible realm of the digital world. I started a blog, a digital canvas painted with reflections, experiences, and thoughts for a broad, public audience. Originally conceptualised as a bridge between my personal and professional life and the larger…
-
Introduction to AI and AI Safety (videos)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way, from theoretical concepts to practical applications that shape our work and everyday lives. Crucial AI concepts start with the distinction between Narrow AI and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) AI safety refers to the research and practices to ensure artificial intelligence systems operate reliably, ethically, and without causing…
-
Can ChatGPT pass the Turing Test?
The Turing Test measures a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human’s. Developed by Alan Turing in 1950, the test proposes that if a machine can carry on a conversation with a human in such a way that the human cannot distinguish it from another human, then the machine can be considered…
-
Post-privacy and the digital self. Life-narratives through big data: why small data is beautiful
A talk I gave recently on ‘small data’ (or personal data) and the importance to curate and keep it for personal history.
-
The future of the past-university online
After a tumultuous time in higher education over the past months, particularly in the EdTech and online learning spaces, it may be time to reflect, re-energise, and critically appraise. The past is full of junctures and upheavals, turning points and divergent paths, and it is the historian’s job to make sense of significant events and…
-
Review: Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology
One of the most productive things I have done during Melbourne’s lockdown is read Thomas Piketty’s latest work, Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press, 2020). It is undoubtedly not the most leisurely book to read, at 1150 pages, dense with footnotes, appendices, and graphs, spanning a three-hundred-year period, multiple countries, and the fields of economics…