Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
- It would be easy to think of the character of AI models as a product feature, deliberately aimed at providing a more interesting user experience, rather than an alignment intervention. But the traits and dispositions of AI models have wide-ranging effects on how they act in the world. They determine how models react to new and difficult situations,... See more
from Claude’s Character
OpenAI, which has been accused by its peers of releasing tools to the public with reckless speed, is particularly good at designing interfaces for its models that feel like magic. “It’s a conscious design imperative to produce these moments of shock and awe,” Crawford says. “We’re going to keep having those moments of enchantment.”
from Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic by John Herrman
Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are new , surprising , and valuable .
from Creativity in a Nutshell by Margaret Boden
The Lab’s mission is also to develop a critical literacy that can help cultural institutions approach AI technologies as advanced and multilayered media. While reliant on the highly specialised theoretical work needed to untangle issues such as ‘distributed authorship’ (Ascott 2005; Zeilinger 2021) involved in artistic research, the Lab does not sh
... See morefrom Creative—Critical—Constructive —Collaborative—Computational: Towards a C5 model in Creative AI by Creative AI Lab
Even when these paragraphs fail, they make her interested in the story again. She’s curious about this computer-generated text, and it reignites her interest in her own writing.
from AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing by Katy Gero
If I have an idea for a novel, but the computer writes most of it, is it still my story? This question will not be answered with numbers about how many words I or the computer wrote. It’s going to be answered culturally; it’s going to be a feeling we have about where authenticity or truth really lies.
from AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing by Katy Gero
A recurring theme in participant feedback was that the language model lacked taste and intentionality...In contrast, good writers are skilled not only in producing but also discerning good language. In other words, they have taste, the ability to decide why one sentence is interesting while another is not.
from Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers by Daphne Ippolito
The issue here does not concern how many jobs will be created, how much income generated, how many pollutants added... Rather, the issue has to do with the ways in which choices about technology have important consequences for the form and quality of human associations.
from Do Artifacts Have Politics? by Langdon Winner
