Digital Life Institute

Frontiers | AI agents, wearable computing and the future of postsecondary learning frontiersin.org/journals/educa…

New publication by member Dr. Gustav Verhulsdonck! Augmenting User Experience Design with Multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Study of Technical Communication Students: Technical Communication Quarterly tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Steering The Trojan Horse of Social Media: the use of human-centered AI in mitigating human trafficking online via Digital Life Institute digitallife.org/steering-the-t…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for "I Get You”: Empathy, Rhetoric, & the Design of AI Assistants. We were pleased to welcome guest speaker, Professor @isabel_pedersen from @ontariotech_u #sfuenglish

With advancements like artificial intelligence and automation reshaping societal norms, Dr. @isabel_pedersen and the @DigLife3 are focused on how we should use #TechWithAConscience. news.ontariotechu.ca/archives/2025/…

“The companies that control our digital lives have a monopoly on the data needed to understand the implications of their products, and AI is no exception.” writes ⁦⁦@taylor_owen⁩ Opinion: AI can be a threat to children’s lives. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built theconversation.com/ai-affects-eve… via @ConversationEDU

Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/10/16/bus…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

New post by ⁦@ontariotech_u⁩ grad student @TeresaGoff31160! “as we approach the end of 2024, the alignment of immersive journalism w/ traditional news values and its ethical implications are critical areas of examination” Exploring Immersive Journalism digitallife.org/exploring-imme…

“California was poised to become a standard-bearer for regulating a technology that has exploded into public consciousness with the release of chatbots and realistic image and video generators in recent years” ⁦@nytimes⁩ nytimes.com/2024/09/29/tec…

Great event last night, AI Killed the Radio Star Again. Thank you to @iameddyjones, @iamdavidneale, @iamelev8, Will from Kop's Records, @delon_om and @isabel_pedersen of @DigLife3.

“On the qualifying exam for the International Mathematical Olympiad, or I.M.O. — the premier math competition for high schoolers — its previous technology scored 13 percent. OpenAI o1, the company said, scored 83 percent.” @CadeMetz

“Still, standardized tests are not always a good judge of how technologies will perform in real-world situations, and though the system might be good at a math test question, it could still struggle to teach math” ⁦@CadeMetz⁩ OpenAI Unveils o1 Model nytimes.com/2024/09/12/tec…

New AI models @OpenAI that will change work and education.

We wish to thank our sponsors, the Carpenters Union Local 397, @ontariotech_u Faculty of Social Science & Humanities @OT_FSSH @SSHRC_CRSH @DigLife3 for their support of this research and community-based event.

Join us for an AI & culture event, Sept 18, 2024 in #Oshawa w Dr. @delon_om & hip hop artists: @iamelev8 Eddy Jones, David Neale! AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop Bond St. Event Centre, 44 Bond St E 5-7PM @OT_FSSH events.humanitix.com/ai-killed-the-…

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport: “it would likely be a kind of metadata tag that accompanies photos & would be different from watermarking, a practice in which a signal is embedded into an image that identifies it as generated by AI” @jdcapelouto

CBC article by journalist and filmmaker Candace Maracle

How AI can help Indigenous language revitalization, and why data sovereignty is important interview with Michael Running Wolf for @CBC cbc.ca/news/indigenou…