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Kehlmann in CTRL: A Conversation Among Daniel Kehlmann, Bryan McCann & Clara Blume

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Open Austria Art + Tech Lab and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation between renowned author Daniel Kehlmann and philosopher and AI researcher Bryan McCann, who will discuss collaborating on “AI Storytelling,” an innovative project in which they jointly explore and experiment with the process of creating new stories by working with an NLP-based (natural language processing) algorithm named CTRL.

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Facing History Today: Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors

In contrast to vital records, family photos do not impart clear, standardized information and have always posed a genealogical challenge. In 2019, amateur genealogist and data scientist Scott Genzer developed a technique for using free online facial recognition tools to identify people in photographs, and has successfully applied it to historical photos of the Jewish community of his ancestral town,…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Sexism, Homophobia, and Anti-Western Narratives on Russian Social Media: The Case of Sorok Sorokov on VK

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Andrejs Berdņikovs, editor at the European Journalism Observatory and Technology Scout at the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA). Andrejs Berdņikovs is a data analyst, activist, and social entrepreneur with experience in research, technology scouting,…