Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
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
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
Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails accepting standards and limitations that forbid the indulgence of impulse or whim. It is this selflessness that, in connection with bullshit, strikes us as inapposite. But in fact it is not out of the question at all. The realms of advertising and of public relations,
... See moreHarry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
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
As more artists gain access to AI and take up the tools, artists will have a whole new look — both how they look making art and how their art develops.
Steven Vargas • How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself
Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
arxiv.org
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?
Katy Gero • AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing
A poem, I would say, is the site where “hollow and void” poetry is tactically deployed in a physical and social context, in order to achieve a particular effect. The poem unites poetry with an intention. So yes, a language model can indeed (and can only) write poetry, but only a person can write a poem.
Allison Parish • Language models can only write poetry
New art-making technologies change art in consistent ways, and studying the past helps us understand how things will change in the future.