Reading Recipes

Reading Recipe 1:

5% of your grade

  1. Read Epilogue from Karen Hao’s Empire of AI
  2. Read Small AI
  3. Research an existing handmade dataset project to show to the class in a brief 5min presentation. You may choose something from this list of examples or something you’ve found in the readings or by yourself. Either way, please sign up in this spreadsheet to avoid duplicate presentations. You will present this next week at the beginning of class. A handmade dataset project is any AI project that involves training a model on a dataset (that is human-scale) created by the designer/artist themselves or in community with a specific group of people for non-commercial purposes.

Reading Recipe 2:

5% of your grade

Read Language Models can only write Ransom Notes - Allison Parrish

Markov Chain experiment

  1. Paste or upload your text from your Handmade Experiments #2 to the web tool we explored in classhttps://handmadedatasets.com/markov_example/ and experiment with the source material and the n-gram parameter. Remember, N-grams control how much context the model remembers before predicting the next word. lower n makes output looser and more random, higher n keeps it closer to the original phrasing but needs more source text to work well.
  2. Submit screenshots of your markov experiments along with a sentence about your source text in Brightspace.

Reading Recipe 3:

5% of your grade

  1. Read Sowing the Latent Field - Moisés Horta Valenzuela
  2. Listen to one of the following tracks that incorporates RAVE models
    Martin Heinz, Hexorcismos, Mutualismx Album, Tommy Martinez, Marianne Teixido & E. Ocelotl, RAVE Model Challenge - Proposals:
  3. Submit a few sentences on -> What you noticed auditorally? What references did you pick up if any? What did the generative technique add to the emotional or aesthetic quality of the music that may not have been possible with another technique (i.e. sampling, live playing, etc)? Did you find this conceptually interesting? Why or why not?

Reading Recipe 4:

5% of your grade

Read How to Build Anything Ethically - Suzanne Kite

Activity (2 options):

  1. Option 1 - Create a “reflection visual/diagram” of your Handmade Dataset thus far in light of the ethical considerations brought up in How to Build Anything Ethically. Your visual/diagram can be as expressive as you like but it should communicate the ethical choices, questions, and discomforts you have with your project/dataset thus far.

    Here’s one I made reflecting on the previous iteration of this course (which was taught in a shorter more survey-like format):
  2. Option 2 - Create a “protocols” table outlining your values and how they influenced different decisions you made about your project.

    Example from How to Build Anything Ethically: