Scott and Jhave are back talking billions of dollars and discussing whether the new AI economy truly is "too big to fail".
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Episode 41 - Digital Art and Meaning with Roberto Simanowski
On this episode Scott talks to author and media theorist Roberto Simanowski about digital media, AI, art and hypertext.
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The AI Update XVI: Anthropic Copyright Settlement
Scott and Jhave are here to talk about a major class-action lawsuit that will reward authors for the fact that their books were used for AI training data... and this is not just any class-action lawsuit: the largest publicly reported settlement in human history.References: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong? Thea Lim https://thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-company/
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ALGOpod #3: Minna Ruckenstein
In episode three of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta visits Minna Ruckenstein, a Professor in Emerging Technologies in Society at the University of Helsinki's Consumer Society Research Center, for a deep dive into her work on algorithmic folklore.
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Episode 40: From Cybertext to Video Game Studies with Espen Aarseth
On this episode Scott talks to Espen Aarseth, Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, about his groundbreaking work in game studies.
Off Center is a podcast series from the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Center of Research Excellence at the University of Bergen, Norway. In each episode, host Scott Rettberg and a guest delve into a topic revolving around digital storytelling and its effect on contemporary culture. The series covers academic research on digital narratives in electronic literature, computer games, social media, computational narrative systems, AI, XR and more in an enjoyable and understandable way.