The QUT Generative AI Lab is a new, specialist research initiative focused on addressing the emerging social and cultural challenges and possibilities of Generative AI. Staffed by a multidisciplinary team led by Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess, the Lab aims to develop, disseminate and apply new sociotechnical research capabilities specific to Generative AI, combining critical, technical, and externally-engaged approaches.
The QUT GenAI Lab is aligned with QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and the ARC Centre of Excellence of Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).
'Digital Fossils' Behind Bizarre AI Glitch in Scientific Papers
GenAI Lab research fellow Aaron Snoswell and Kevin Witzenberger, along with PhD student Rayane El Masri, have had their recent work featured in The Conversation. Their article, A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data, looks at the emergence of “digital fossils” and their…
Demystifying generative AI with the GenAI Lab
Last month, we hosted two workshops demystifying GenAI at both, the DMRC & ADM+S summer school. Here’s a little recap of the workshops. The Live Action Roleplay (LARP) Workshop led by Aaron Snowswell: Students were given the opportunity to step-into the transformer architecture. Inspired by the design of board games, our participants…
Dr Kevin Witzenberger – The Conversation: Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs
Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs Dr Kevin Witzenberger from the Lab and Assoc Professor Michael Richardson UNSW write in The Conversation After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in…
Exploring AI Governance across Australia and Chile
Senior Research Fellow , Dr Aaron Snoswell met with the Head of International Affairs at the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile to discuss the evolving regulatory landscapes of artificial intelligence in Australia and Chile. The discussion focused on fostering global collaboration in AI governance…
Lab members successful in latest ARC Discovery round
Congratulations to the team led by Associate Professor Michelle Riedlinger who alongside the Labs Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess and Dr Aaron Snoswell were successful in the latest ARC Discovery round with the project: Generative AI and the future of academic writing and publishing. The project investigates how GenAI…
What is AI 'model collapse'? ABC Listen with Dr Aaron Snoswell
Artificial Intelligence chatbots have come such a long way in a really short time.Each release of ChatGPT brings new features, like voice chat, along with updates to the training data fed into the systems, supposed to make them smarter. But are more leaps forward a sure thing? Or could the tools actually get dumber? Dr Aaron Snoswell…
New Conversation article from Dr Aaron Snoswell on 'Model Collapse'
New Conversation article from Dr Aaron Snoswell on ‘Model Collapse‘  …
GenAI Research Catchup: 31 July 2024
This is the latest in a series of posts that will re-cap our fortnightly research catchups. We hold these meetings at the QUT Kelvin Grove campus, and they are open to anyone at QUT interested in Generative AI related research. Contact the lab (genailab@qut.edu.au) if you would like to be added to our mailing list for the meetings. Our…
Post-event: Warzones as Content, Gaza as Template
On July 25th, the Digital Media Research Centre and the GenAI Lab hosted Dr. Tom Divon from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a thought-provoking seminar, exploring the complex interplay between social media, AI, and the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Divon, who is an Israeli based researcher and humanitarian activist, offered unique…
Visitor Seminar, 25 July: Warzones as Content, Gaza as Template: Navigating the Media Spaces of Palestinian Trauma, Resistance, and Imagination
This talk will explore media spaces in and around Gaza. Our first focus will be on social media platforms, where warzonestransform into content and creators immerse themselves in the online mediatization of daily atrocities. Utilizingframeworks of platform vernaculars and visibility, we will explore how creators navigate their trauma…
Post-event: "Is This Thing On?" Large Language Models and the Cultural Risks of Bad Jokes
On June 25th, the Digital Media Research Centre and the GenAI Lab hosted scholars Prof. Aram Sinnreich and A/Prof Victoria Simon for an engaging seminar titled “Is This Thing On? Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Cultural Risks of Bad Jokes.” Organized and chaired by Dr. Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, whose DECRA project examines the…
GenAI Lab team makes the finals of the Prosocial Ranking Challenge
A team led by the GenAI Lab’s Aaron Snoswell, with William He and Jean Burgess and in collaboration with Tariq Choucair (QUT) and Damiano Spina (RMIT) has been successful in making it through to the finals of the Prosocial Ranking Challenge. The Prosocial Ranking Challenge is a contest hosted by the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC…