Isabelle Levent

Second, we should create a legal regime that can make our data’s collective value something we can bargain over as a group.

New art-making technologies change art in consistent ways, and studying the past helps us understand how things will change in the future.

A couple participants found success using the chatbot as a convenient search engine alternative (KL, WT). KL wrote: “It’s kind of great to use the chat interface and treat LaMDA as a thesaurus, quote finder, and general research assistant.”

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

This is posing questions to writers everywhere: Which parts of writing are so tedious you’d be happy to see them go? Which parts bring you the inexplicable joy of creating something from nothing? And what is it about writing you hold most dear? 

Although the humans involved in the creation of Edmond de Belamy were essentially cut out of the art’s creation narrative, the AI itself was often spoken about as having human-like characteristics.