Isabelle Levent

the reconfiguration of culture as a domain of not just human-made meanings but also machinic calculation

Much of the discussion this year is about text-to-image, but I believe this is a temporary stage; these things are going to continue evolving very quickly.

We find that models learn just as fast with many prompts that are intentionally irrelevant or even pathologically misleading as they do with instructively “good” prompts. Further, such patterns hold even for models as large as 175 billion parameters (Brown et al., 2020) as well as the recently proposed instruction-tuned models which are trained on

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.

Whereas if you put them in a group, they’ll go “dog” and someone else will go “space dog” and someone else will go “Aztec space dog,” and then all of a sudden, people understand the possibilities, and you’re creating this augmented imagination — an environment where people can learn and play with this new capacity. So we found that people really

Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are  new ,  surprising , and  valuable .