Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
Convocation Design
convocation.design
In many instances, to say that some technologies are inherently political is to say that certain widely accepted reasons of practical necessity–especially the need to maintain critical technological systems as smoothly working entities–have tended to eclipse other sorts of moral and political reasoning.
Langdon Winner • Do Artifacts Have Politics?
You must never think at the typewriter — you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. (Ray Bradbury)
Maria Popova • What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
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From My Data to Our Data: A Proposal to Equitably Distribute Wealth in a Digital Economy
Hanlin Lilive-future-of-building-wealth.pantheonsite.ioTech Ethics and
For a computer to make a subtle combinational joke, never mind to assess its tastefulness, would require, first, a data-base with a richness comparable to ours, and, second, methods of link-making (and link-evaluating) comparable in subtlety with ours.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
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A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
on metaphors for LLMs
Even when these paragraphs fail, they make her interested in the story again. She’s curious about this computer-generated text, and it reignites her interest in her own writing.