Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
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Wordcraft Writers Workshop
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In the course of a year, the tech industry’s dreary post-social, post-crypto interregnum was rapidly supplanted — largely as the result of public-facing efforts by OpenAI, which is reportedly in talks with Microsoft about a potential $10 billion investment — by a story about inevitable technologies that are so transformative, so incomprehensibl
... See moreJohn Herrman • Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
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However, we often found that it was the unexpected differences between the prompt and the generated image’s interpretation of it that yielded new insight for and excitement from participants.
Dava Newman • When happy accidents spark creativity: Bringing collaborative speculation to life with generative AI
The political scientist Henry Farrell has argued that we’ve had artificial intelligences before in the form of markets and states. A market is just a big information-processing, decision-making device. So, in a funny way, anytime I see that something costs $4.99 and I pay it, I’m giving up a kind of autonomy to the force of the market, right? I’m... See more
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
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
... See moreThe Verge • “An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney
Academically, this is a collision of everything from computer science and art history to media studies to disruptive innovation to labor economics, and no one of these disciplines seems sufficient to cover the topic.
Aaron Hertzmann • When Machines Change Art
Creative AI Lab
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