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I Fed Avocado Toast To An AI and Here’s What Happened

I Fed Avocado Toast To An AI and Here’s What Happened

Say I wanted to make an app that recognizes avocado toast, and I have an AI model ready to go. …

The Air We Breathe: a cross-reality balloon exhibition

The Air We Breathe: a cross-reality balloon exhibition

Shown above: Social distance balloons. (The balloon on the left is a hologram, remoting in via …

Cross-R Meetings for Remote-first Teams

Cross-R Meetings for Remote-first Teams

What are meetings for? Specifically, what are meetings between geographically distant people …

Environments and Stations: a preliminary phenomenology

Environments and Stations: a preliminary phenomenology

. When I started writing this post, I thought I was analyzing the difference between working in a …

Cross-R Collaboration: Our latest prototype!

Cross-R Collaboration: Our latest prototype!

Feel free to check out the video first then read here for a more in depth look at the tech, …

Combination Physical and Virtual Tools for Spatial Computation

Combination Physical and Virtual Tools for Spatial Computation

Introduction We like the idea of being able to do computation and programming in a natural way, …

Collaging Spatial Programming Techniques: Nested AI in ‘Gestural’ blocks

Collaging Spatial Programming Techniques: Nested AI in ‘Gestural’ blocks

I’ve been imagining again. This time it’s a way of working with nested scripting techniques …

Computation for Hands, Systems for Humans

Computation for Hands, Systems for Humans

Introduction Recently my hands were craving computation. We were waiting on some VR hardware and …

Making and Using AI Together: an unscalable approach to interpretable ML

Making and Using AI Together: an unscalable approach to interpretable ML

In this post we are going to explore my prototype of an XR interface for communal research on an …

Trained Trust: A two-way, refereed feedback mechanism for on-demand work

Trained Trust: A two-way, refereed feedback mechanism for on-demand work

In this post we are going to walk through a proposal for a new mechanism for structuring on …

Data Dignity at RadicalxChange

Data Dignity at RadicalxChange

Back in March this year we headed to Detroit for RadicalxChange, a conference with the stated …

Certified Sustainable: USDA Organic, LEED Platinum, and the future of ethical AI

Certified Sustainable: USDA Organic, LEED Platinum, and the future of ethical AI

Recently Governor Gavin Newsom announced that his administration plans to pursue a “data …

Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data

Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data

Introduction Alan Turing created the Turing Test in 1950, Marvin Minsky wrote the first neural …

Rigorous Play in Interpretable Machine Learning

Rigorous Play in Interpretable Machine Learning

An AI, in its least flattering light, is a giant pile of calculus and what ever bias it was fed …

The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart

The Art of Research - A History by Vi Hart

TAOR continues the research tradition of eleVR, a group that existed from early 2014 to late. …

VR Interface for Generative ML Collaboration

VR Interface for Generative ML Collaboration

Today, creating AI models is a process reserved for experts. Cleaning data, tuning hyper …

We are Collage: Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI

We are Collage: Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI

Collage is the language of the moment, but has been for over 100 years. Let’s walk through …

Welcome to TAOR

Welcome to TAOR

(We are pronouncing it “tower.”) Welcome to the new blog of researchers Vi Hart and M …