Watch iAlja - page 2

Welcome to the Tethix Archipelago: experimenting with virtual spaces for learning & collaboration

YouTube · 12:12 · Sep 28, 2023

Taking you behind the pixels of the Tethix Archipelago, a pixel world we built in Gather that we now use as our office and learning playground.

Can you imagine different devices?

TikTok · 02:09 · Sep 4, 2023

Can you imagine how different our phones and other devices would be if they weren’t designed in Silicon Valley where the individual is the center of the universe, where winning is always the goal?

2hr meetings

TikTok · 06:40 · Sep 1, 2023

Everyone loves to hate meetings, but the problem is not with taking the time to meet with people, but rather that we don’t make enough time for quality, in-depth, relationship building meetings. I think we should make time for at least one or two 2 hour meetings each week with max 3 people. (And have fewer unsatisfying short ones.)

Green web development tips

TikTok · 03:38 · Aug 30, 2023

Just because it’s digital, it doesn’t mean it’s clean and green. I share three basic tips on how you can reduce the carbon footprint of your websites and a couple of links that can help you learn more about green web development:

• Green Hosting Directory
• Website Carbon Calculator
• ClimateAction.Tech guide

2023

TikTok · 03:10 · Aug 28, 2023

2023, what a time to be alive. The perfect time to spark change and reclaim time as our own.

Witcher's code

TikTok · 01:13 · Aug 19, 2023

What if we took a note from Geralt of Rivia and used our guild’s code as an excuse to get out of icky feature requests? At least until we can actually agree on our guild’s code of ethics.

AI Cassandras (part 2)

TikTok · 03:12 · Aug 17, 2023

Learn more about the work of the AI Cassandras profiled in the Rolling Stone article and other women in the field of artificial intelligence.

• DAIR & Timnit Gebru on LinkedIn
• Joy Buolamwini & Algorithmic Justice League
• Safiya Noble & Center on Race and Digital Justice
• Rumman Chowdhury & Humane Intelligence
• Our Data Bodies
• Coded Bias documentary
• Women in AI Ethics

AI Cassandras (part 1)

TikTok · 05:08 · Aug 17, 2023

Highlights from the Rolling Stone article about five AI experts, all women of color, who have been trying to warn us about the risks and harms of artificial intelligence – and were, in some cases, fired for sounding the alarm.

• These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots

GPTBot rant

TikTok · 02:37 · Aug 14, 2023

A short rant about how we let OpenAI and other companies scrape our data without our permission. We now have the ability to block the GPTBot web crawler, but why is this opt out instead of opt in?

• GPTBot documentation
• VentureBeat report on GPTBot
• TikTok on getting revenge on Google Docs AI

Why does ChatGPT lie?

TikTok · 01:34 · Aug 13, 2023

When using ChatGPT, keep in mind what it was actually designed to do: generate plausible sounding text. For now, fact checking remains in your capable human hands!

AI ethics & gender (part 2)

TikTok · 04:18 · Aug 10, 2023

Women and other marginalized people have been making the most significant contributions to the field of AI ethics – and suffering the consequences of speaking up –, yet we keep elevating the voices of tenured men who often take a surprisingly long time to realize the possible misuses and negatives impacts of their work.

• AI Ethics timeline
• Weapons of Math Destruction
• Atlas of AI
• Profile on Joseph Weizenbaum
• Interview with Timnit Gebru

AI ethics & computer science (part 1)

TikTok · 03:41 · Aug 10, 2023

Part 1 of sharing my personal experience with how computer scientists tend to dismiss AI ethics as a distraction from the “real” and “hard” artificial intelligence research.