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Open Access in the Disciplines: A Conversation October 6th, 12:00-1:30 pm (Gelman Library, Room 702): Learn how faculty from the sciences and humanities have opened their scholarship to the public, and the challenges and benefits they have encountered in the process. Panelists include Paul Brindley (microbiology), Lorena Barba (aerospace engineering), Ami Zota (occupational health), Alexa…
The Craft of Writing in the Age of AI
Generative AI tools stake claims to anonymized, collective authorship through machine-generated texts that are similar to patterns in the datasets they trained on. The notion of authorship faces new challenges of delineating the agency, knowability, and intentionality of written words. Led by Alexa Alice Joubin (English and Digital Humanities Institute) and Kylie Quave (University Writing Program and Anthropology), this session explores our society’s evolving relationship to written words and the future of the craft of writing.
World Bank: AI, Technology, and Art
During her talk at the World Bank, Alexa Alice Joubin raised questions about the intersectionality of technology and art. Art is front and center in digital transformations of our society today. Art fosters creativity, and creative thinking leads to social change.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Viewing Party
Join the GW English Department for a screening of the Globe Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 2 pm, Saturday, September 25, 2021. This event takes place online and is live streamed from the Globe Theatre. The running time is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes with no interval. Stay tuned afterwards for a talk back with…
GW Coders at Work
Alexa Alice Joubin spoke at a recent GW Coders meeting. GW Coders, in collaboration with GW Digital Humanities Institute, offers a summer internship for students to enhance their coding skills. During this meeting, Seth Blackburn, the 2021 intern, shares his experience. He also introduces some of the tools he used as a research intern to build websites…
AI and Religion
There are cases of AI monks and priests. Though religious institutions have not always behaved ethically in the past, they have centuries of experience parsing moral conundrums through the lens of their own belief systems. Prof. Irene Oh from the GW Department of Religion will lead a discussion of the many ways that artificial intelligence is changing the meaning and practice of religion.
