Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
art and Human-Centered AI
What do you do when you know that the environment is going to change but you want to have other members of your species that are reasonably well aligned? Caregiving is one of the things that we do to make that happen. Every time we raise a new generation of children, we’re faced with this difficulty of
here are these intelligences, they’re new,... See more
here are these intelligences, they’re new,... See more
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
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.
Langdon Winner • Do Artifacts Have Politics?
I think that the language model’s failure to dismiss the class results from a slightly different cause than my student’s failure to dismiss the class with the same utterance. While the student’s failure arises from their lack of authority, the model’s failure results from the fact that it functions more like a citation of language rather than a
... See moreAllison Parish • Language models can only write poetry
My lesson from these two examples is that it might be possible to make prompting “invisible” by making it part of the UI, and finetuning output for as much of the writer’s context as possible to make it more useful. Latency matters, and cost matters, which are wonderful because these tend to be “regular engineering” type problems rather than AI
... See moreSwyx • Why "Prompt Engineering" and "Generative AI" are overhyped
Our intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.
Sydney Levine • Who gets credit for AI-generated art? – MIT Media Lab
Tech Ethics and
You must never think at the typewriter — you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. (Ray Bradbury)
Maria Popova • What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
It becomes a question of who created a certain work of art.