Here's a little more on the project from TechCrunch:
The story of the Poetry Camera began as a personal passion project ...
"The project's origin is when I got access to GPT-3. My first instinct was to play Dungeons & Dragons with it because I'm a nerd. I figured 'if this thing could play Dungeons & Dragons, that would be impressive.' And yeah, it did work for that. This was back when you had to do prompt engineering. So it took some elbow grease to get it to work. But I also had this idea of maybe making some camera as a project," says Mather. "What if you took a camera, but it was a reaction to Instagram culture? What if text comes out instead of a photo? … Everyone prefers the book version over the movie, so it's like that for capturing moments."
As they refined their prototype, Zhang and Mather began to share their creation with friends and family at social gatherings. The reactions they received were nothing short of astonishing. People were fascinated by the concept of a camera that could generate poetry based on what it saw. The device quickly became the center of attention, sparking lively discussions and igniting the imagination of all who encountered it.
...the thing I like about Poetry Camera is that it's not making lofty claims about replacing creative labor so that a bunch of lazy bastards can some money off of NFTs or whatever. It's purely novel, and genuinely kind of delightful. And that's all it needs to be.
This camera trades pictures for AI poetry [Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch]
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[seeking suggestions] a list of ethnographic books (monographs, edited volumes, and other non-textbooks) that come with instructor materials that could be used in anthropology classes ...
The instructor materials could take a variety of formats such as listings in the book itself, accompanying instructor manuals, or hyperlinks to publicly available pdfs or websites, etc. Some examples of possible teaching materials include but are not limited to discussion questions, videos, teaching activities, or assignments that accompany the book.
The goal of the project is to identify monographs or edited volumes that are not explicitly textbooks but have accompanying teaching materials that instructors could use to adopt the scholarly work into their classes.
If you have authored a book with such materials or know of such books with accompanying teaching materials, please email Audrey Ricke at: a c r i c k eAT iu.edu with
Here is a short list ...[to] share the list on the Teaching Anthropology Interest Group website, which contains links to other teaching materials.... docs.google.com/document/d/...
Respectfully,
Audrey Ricke -- Chair, Teaching Anthropology Interest Group, General Anthropology Division - American Anthro. Assoc.
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While many of us do a lot of outreach, I think it is safe to say we need to do more to make this world a better place. I'd be interested in my colleagues thoughts on strategies they have used to reach more.
This is an excerpt from The King of Bangkok. Originally appearing in Chapter 3, the section we present is a flashback that follows the book's protagonist, Nok, on his journey to the island of Koh Pha-Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand. Nok has secured work on a construction site there during the height of the country's economic boom. The section demonstrates how opportunity and precarity, excitement and devastation are fundamental forces animating and shaping the experiences of migrant workers like Nok.
Awarded the 2020 Antiquities prize for newly published and open access article, "The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement."
The article provides a site overview and the current interpretations of the archaeology alongside discussing the material found during the 2015-16 excavations.
See https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.38
or look at Facebook for updates to the project, https://www.facebook.com/MustFarmArchaeology/
