Code&Share-kursus: [61]: The Online Search Rodeo

Code&Share[61]: The Online Search Rodeo

For more than two decades, Google Search has shaped how we navigate the web, and how knowledge is organized online. But things are changing. The uptake of generative AI is transforming search from a tool that points to information, into a system that increasingly offers synthesized answers, generated on the fly.

This public workshop explores search at this moment of transition. We will look at how search has historically worked, and how those mechanics are being reconfigured by large language models and generative interfaces.
Workshop participants will be invited to think critically about search not only as a technical system, but as a cultural and political one: Who gets represented? Who gets summarized—or erased? And what does it mean to “search” in a world where answers are written for us?

The workshop, facilitated by AU researcher Renée Ridgway together with Code&Share[ ] and artist/programmer Anders Visti, employs the re-search.site, a bespoke platform that aesthetically compares participants’ search results from diverse browsers and search engines through data visualisation. Additionally, a novel ‘chatbot rodeo’ interface compares answers to participants’ prompts from a range of chatbots—proprietary, open weight and open source—in real time.

Bring your laptops, keywords and prompts!—We have free snacks and coffee/tea for participants.

Kursusinformation:

Dato og tid: Wednesday, January 21st from 16.00 to 18.00

Sted: @ KLUB, Linnésgade 25, 1361 København K, Denmark

Undervisere: Renée Ridgway / Anders Visti

Pris: Gratis

Tilmelding: Free Signup here

Organised by Code&Share[ ] and Open Source Democracy