Artisanal Writing
Prediction: Generative AI platforms built using large language models (or some development
Ancient Rhetoric illuminates LLM "Hallucination"
We can't figure out LLM "hallucination" without first rethinking modern assumptions about the value of mimicry
Where Should Humanities Reside?
The stuff of humanities is awash with technology, conditioned, constrained, and catalyzed by the turns of technological fortune. Humanists are technologists for the longue duree.
ls tools | grep aviary
👀tldr: educators and digital humanities folks should check out https://aviary.anyscale.
All generative AI systems are human in the loop systems
The widespread adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT might seem like it is an impending crisis of authenticity, a threat of undetected cheating. But I think the bigger challenge is about short-circuiting our awareness of how we make meaning in the world.
ls humanities: Humanities were always applied knowledge
Humanists are failing utterly at product-market fit. That doesn't mean it's a bad product.
vim ai/impacts: Writing doesn't have a lock on mediating our thinking
If I can make characters, movies, story, and the like from hacked-together generated components, all within an hour or so, will that become my mode of thought?