Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
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
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Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
They thought it would be particularly useful for writing in a certain voice or character, or for coming up with thematically exciting words. They wondered what kind of thesaurus would come from a corpus of nautical novels (like Moby Dick)
Lydia Chilton • How a Stylistic, Machine-Generated Thesaurus Impacts a Writer’s Process
Crawford elaborated in an interview. “When you have this enchanted determinism, you say, we can’t possibly understand this. And we can’t possibly regulate it when it’s clearly so unknown and such a black box,” she says. “And that’s a trap.”
John Herrman • Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
Because creativity by definition involves not only novelty but value, and because values are highly variable, it follows that many arguments about creativity are rooted in disagreements about value.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
There are a couple reasons why Wordcraft may have struggled with style and voice... Another reason could have been limitations of the underlying model. LaMDA and other similar language models are trained to be most confident on the kind of text they see most often–typically internet data. However, professional creative writers are usually writing
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As more artists gain access to AI and take up the tools, artists will have a whole new look — both how they look making art and how their art develops.
Steven Vargas • How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself
A poem, I would say, is the site where “hollow and void” poetry is tactically deployed in a physical and social context, in order to achieve a particular effect. The poem unites poetry with an intention. So yes, a language model can indeed (and can only) write poetry, but only a person can write a poem.
Allison Parish • Language models can only write poetry
They will shade our constant submissions to the vast digital commons, intentional or consensual or mandatory, with the knowledge that every selfie or fragment of text is destined to become a piece of general-purpose training data for the attempted automation of everything. They will be used on people in extremely creative ways, with and without
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