links sent by Marie Lechner about bots, etc

http://voyant-tools.org/

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201611

https://github.com/triketora/7on7-svs-code

Even bots face sexism in the workplace

Claire L. Evans, Artist and Writer & Tracy Chou, Software Engineer,
Pinterest

Emotional relationships with software continued to be a central motif,
as seen in the collaboration between Claire L. Evans and Tracy Chou. The
duo were interested in the way that bots and other nonhuman actants
become screens for assumptions about gender roles. Chou cited, for
example, a study in which male drivers gave lower rankings to
voice-guided navigation systems when the voice was feminine.

Responding to this set of conditions, their software-generated play is
an office drama about an AI coming into sentience, read from a written
script by the collaborators and three text-to-speech bots. The software
that generates the play reassigns characters' gender each time it is
run, highlighting audience assumptions about workplace roles.

The script and performance were enthralling, but you'll have to watch
the video for those, or of course download the software from Chou's
GitHub repository.

https://howwegettonext.com/how-bots-were-born-from-spam-62f6c621351f#.txeug5y1n
https://howwegettonext.com/why-bots-should-be-more-like-plants-and-less-like-people-a168e03c1ad2
https://howwegettonext.com/chatbots-can-help-us-talk-to-animals-f761ee1019c9#.jyernolv6

http://mic.com/articles/143361/this-bot-was-so-good-at-being-a-lawyer-that-a-law-firm-hired-it

http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-la-maison-blanche-met-en-garde-contre-les-derives-de-l-intelligence-artificielle-64739.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/2016_0504_data_discrimination.pdf

http://blog.clarifai.com/what-convolutional-neural-networks-see-at-when-they-see-nudity/#.Vx0rGz9_tzF

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition/

https://medium.com/@rossgoodwin/adventures-in-narrated-reality-6516ff395ba3#.jknogeglm

http://www.zdnet.com/article/tech-firms-have-an-obsession-with-female-digital-servants-and-this-needs-to-change/

http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/yann-lecun/seminar-2016-04-01-12h00.htm