Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent
Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent

art and Human-Centered AI
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.
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 moreMy 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 moreOur intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.

Tech Ethics and
You must never think at the typewriter — you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. (Ray Bradbury)
It becomes a question of who created a certain work of art.