Experiments with Remixing
I work with a crew of clever post-graduate students who have fostered a Community of Inquiry in pursuit of better understanding of Generativism. In this open blogging space, I'm sharing some working notes sourced from a Google Drive, from a SharePoint server, and from a Moodle Learning Management System.
Contributions from Larry Maguire, Frances O’Donnell, and Liam O’Connor
1. We started with a Campfire
- Review DX folder on Vimeo
- Review Flickr DX Group for new items
- Review TUSdx hashtagged content
- Review Substack educast notes
2. Demos and Discussions
- DEMO: Bernie shows Microsoft AI producing a short summary of what should be covered in today's session.
- Bernie will explain PARA while linking to Tiago Forte's video.
- HANDS-ON Use Copilot to scan https://teachnet.ie
- DISCUSS How do you award confidence to answers generated by an AI?
3. Activities
HANDS-ON Upload portrait image of your Atomic snippet that describes what you are doing now. Upload to [Flickr Digital Transformation Group](https://flickr.com/groups/digitaltransformation). Include a title to your upload and include your prompt as part of your upload.
HANDS-ON Upload your image to the [Google DX > 02 images folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1t-pT1irVf4UDwNEAcy9zMPQj8_Ztz16h)
4. Your Personal DX
AI can provide insights and recommendations by analyzing large amounts of data to surface useful insights and suggest optimizations for workflows.
1. AI enhances human capabilities. The value of AI lies not just in performing tasks but in augmenting human potential. The Human Element
2. Optimizes workflow by improving efficiency and productivity. Several notes point out that when used properly, AI tools can boost productivity and optimize workflows. However, there are also risks and challenges to consider.
- DISCUSS How have you operationalized the concept of Personal Digital Transformation?
personal digital transformation is...
… leveraging technology to improve your productivity, knowledge, skills, and abilities.
… harnessing the power of digital tools to inform the decision-making process.
…. using digital technologies to allow us, our people, and organisations to develop and grow.
digital transformation is
"In essence, digital transformation is about an organisation and their people’s ability to adapt to rapid changes caused by evolving digital technologies.[...] Digital transformation is about becoming more digitally mature as an organisation."
Source: CIPD, 2021 Digital transformation in organisations and people functions
"Long-term forecasting is almost impossible for chaotic systems, and dramatic change can occur unexpectedly; as a result, flexibility and adaptiveness are essential for organisations to survive“.
Purposeful transformations
- Filtering information
- Prioritising notifications
- Generating drafts for text responses
- Quickly producing actionable meeting minutes
Digital Transformation - Trust
- Deep Fakes
- AI generated articles & reports
- Propaganda
- Misinformation
- Hype: both positive & negative
- Digital Transformation with Microsoft Copilot
- DISCUSS What tools are you using currently?
5. What is Generative AI?
- How does it relate to personal digital transformation (DX)?
- How do digital transformation and AI affect people?
- What skills, attitudes & behaviours do we need to develop?
- What tools and apps can help our workflows?
6. Remixing
Deconstruction and Recombination
Kelly emphasizes that remixing involves radical deconstruction of existing elements and the ability to find and recombine these pieces to transform them into something new. This process is not limited to digital content but applies to various aspects of technology and culture.
Everything is a Remix
A fundamental principle of remixing is that all new technologies and cultural works are essentially derived from combinations of existing ones. Kelly quotes Brian Arthur, stating that "All new technologies derive from a combination of existing technologies"
Democratization of Creation
Remixing is facilitated by the widespread availability of cheap and universal tools of creation, such as smartphone cameras and video editing software. This democratization of creative tools allows more people to participate in the remixing process.
Future Impact
Kelly predicts that in the coming decades, the most important cultural works and powerful mediums will be those that have been remixed the most. This suggests that remixing will play a crucial role in shaping future innovations and cultural expressions.
Implications of Remixing
- Rapid Innovation: The ability to remix existing technologies and ideas can lead to faster and more diverse innovations.
- Cultural Evolution: Remixing allows for the continuous evolution and transformation of cultural products and expressions.
- Collaborative Creativity: The remixing process often involves collaboration and building upon the work of others, fostering a more interconnected creative ecosystem.
- Challenges to Ownership: As remixing becomes more prevalent, it may challenge traditional notions of intellectual property and ownership.
By highlighting remixing as a key force, Kelly underscores its importance in driving technological and cultural evolution in the coming decades. This concept encourages us to view innovation not as creating something entirely new, but as cleverly combining and transforming existing elements into novel forms and applications.
How multimodal AI works
7. Ethics and EU AI Act
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI
"AI systems should empower human beings, allowing them to make informed decisions and fostering their fundamental rights. At the same time, proper oversight mechanisms need to be ensured, which can be achieved through human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop, and human-in-command approaches"
Keeping People Front & Centre
The AI Act
- Address risks specifically created by AI applications.
- Prohibit AI practices that pose unacceptable risks.
- Determine a list of high-risk applications.
- Set clear requirements for AI systems for high-risk applications.
- Define specific obligations deployers and providers of high-risk AI applications
- Require a conformity assessment before a given AI system is put into service.
- Put enforcement in place after a given AI system is placed into the market.
- Establish a governance structure at European and national level.
8. Final Thoughts
- Experiment
- Automate tasks
- Get insights
- Enhance creativity
- Make people central in the process
- Remain skeptical, yet curious and flexible
9. Sources
Levy, D. (1994). Chaos theory and strategy: Theory, application, and managerial implications. Strategic management journal, 15(S2), 167-178.
O’Brien, C. (2023, January 20). Google owner to cut thousands of staff globally. The Irish Times.
Kane et al., (2019) The Technology Fallacy: How People are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
Judge, T. A., & Watanabe, S. (1993). Another look at the job satisfaction-life satisfaction relationship. Journal of applied psychology, 78(6), 939.
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI. Shaping Europe’s digital future. (n.d.). https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/ethics-guidelines-trustworthy-ai
AI Act. Shaping Europe’s digital future. (n.d.-a). https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai
Seven Key Requirements of AI Systems, European Commission, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/196377/AI%20HLEG_Ethics%20Guidelines%20for%20Trustworthy%20AI.pdf
10. Links to Sites
https://publish.obsidian.md/transformation
https://Substack.com/@educast
Bernie’s DX Space inside PerplexityClaude Project DX
11. Homework
- Find pundits talking about how the EU AI Act fits on the international stage.
- Be ready to share how your work is affected by inferences.
- Share an item with title and description into the Flickr Digital Transformation Group.
- Query DX3 with your AI.
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