Make a meme

due Sep 13
"If you think that AI has consciousness, you might give it the care, play, and love you extend to a pet. Or, if you think it is a toaster, then you will give it a steady supply of electricity, buy toastable foods and want toaster engineers to write safe production and use standards. " -- Maya Ganesh, Between metaphor and meaning: AI and being human.

Read:

wahkohtawin: kinship within and beyond the immediate family, the state of being related to others (from Making Kin with the Machines) Make sure you are reading the right section*

Step 1:

Write down a metaphor for Machine Learning. If you get stuck, I suggest specifying your context. For example, you could write metaphors specifically for Chat-GPT or Dall-E, or you could picture a hypothetical model that you would make. Think about how your metaphor illustrates the ways you relate to this model. ( Note: Please don’t generate this metaphor using AI. )

Examples:

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (from this article)
AI is a child
AI is an oracle
AI is an assistant

Step 2:

Create a meme or illustration using your metaphor as a jumping-off point. (Please don’t generate this illustration/meme using AI.)

examples:

Instructions for submission:

Submit your meme and metaphor in the #assignments channel of discord.