AI, Cows and earthworms, with holiday book recommendations!

December 04, 2019 by Tomi Slotte Dufva in Commentary

In a recent episode of Finnish podcast Herrasmieshakkerit (Gentleman hackers) , there was an interview with Arttu Lehmuskallio, the head of Finnish National Cyber Security Centre, who briefly discussed how cows have about five computers each. As I am sitting and writing this with my laptop and only have two other computing devices with me (my clock and my phone), I am feeling a bit jealous. Whether the cows surf the Intermoo or watch the Cowflix or not, this bit of information goes to show how digital processes envelop even the picturesque image of a pure countryside and the milking of the cow early in the morning; it is done by computers.

The Death of AI art

June 17, 2019 by Tomi Slotte Dufva in Commentary

The recent trend with technology seems to be betting heavily on Artificial Intelligence. From automating tiresome factory jobs, AI is moving into more cognition demanding jobs. Not only truck- or -taxi drives are threatened, but doctors, nurses, and many others as well. Similarly, art and design worlds are preparing for the new intelligent era.

The answer is AI. -what is the question?

January 15, 2019 by Tomi Slotte Dufva

Artificial intelligence(AI) is seemingly everywhere nowadays. It warns swimmers for sharks , tracks students emotions and concentration levels and can even read minds. AI enables the creation of deep fakes, videos of real people seemingly doing things they never did, as well as disposes and amplifies the unjust, racial, chauvinist and other biases inherent in our culture and society. Besides these headline breaking news, AI is also complexly entangled in our daily lives for instance through our use of the internet, social media, or by just hearing the seasons hit songs generated or selected by some sort of artificial intelligence.

It might even seem that AI is seemingly capable of anything and non-stoppable. This notion is further accentuated by industry and media. Therefore it might be beneficial to define the current AI systems and take a broader look at what is happening right now.

Contempora intearther -machine interprets my dissertation and end of the year musings about AI

December 31, 2018 by Tomi Slotte Dufva

One of the big things in digital technology this year has been the advancements in AI and in particular in machine learning (ML). A lot of great and exciting things has been written about them this year. From the almost incredible mind-reading AI to dystopian visions and further. Despite, AI and ML are producing novel ideas and applications, in some way the current hype of AI and ML reminds me of the hype of big data, or digitalisation, just a while back. The idea remains the same, but the buzzword has just changed.

The traveller of two worlds: a led-candle

December 20, 2018 by Tomi Slotte Dufva in Commentary

he other day I was sitting in a sauna* looking at a led-candle. It was the only flickering light in the darkening evening. At first, I didn’t give it too much attention: it flickered and provided a relaxing atmosphere.

Then I started looking at the flickering, it was a bit random, not too much unlike the flickering of a real candle. Suddenly, I felt a slight breeze of cold air coming through the window and noticed that the led-candle did not react to it, but kept that same rhythm of random light flickering. At that point, it struck me.