Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
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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 moreCreativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are new , surprising , and valuable .
What’s difficult is to state our aesthetic values clearly enough to enable the program itself to make the evaluation at each generation.
Whatever the size of the space, someone who comes up with a new idea within that thinking-style is being creative in the second, exploratory, sense. If the new idea is surprising not just in itself but as an example of an unexpected general type , so much the better.
Maybe the creative work is now to figure out ways to nudge AIs into being weird and interesting rather than producing inane imitations of the most ordinary human writing

on metaphors for LLMs