Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
I got this on email, so don’t know where it came from or who made it [update: my commenters do though, read the comments to find out], but it’s kinda cute. We’re back from the states, had a wonderful trip! Bergen is beautiful today, sunny, but rather cold.
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My colleague Jessica Witte has just shared a preprint where she compared the emotional arcs of the stories we generated using gpt-4o-mini to those of human-authored (pre-2022) stories from the subreddit r/WritingPrompts, conveniently gathered in this dataset. She found a distinct difference in the endings of the LLM-generated stories: both […]
Dorothy Bishop, a psychologist, wrote a useful list of what reviewers need to look out now that so many papers are bad science that looks good thanks to LLMs. Read her whole blog post, she explains it well, but here’s a brief version because I’m pretty sure we’ll be needing […]
I recently read a good article on the different kinds of truth a language model operates with by Luke Mann, Liam Magee and Vanicka Arora, Truth Machines: Synthesizing Veracity in AI Language Models, but despite its lovely typology of truths (consensus, correspondence, coherence and pragmatic) it doesn’t help me with […]
I have this hunch that sparkles and glow and shimmer are somehow a point in the latent spaces of LLMs that have more connections than you would expect. Perhaps their connotation to magic and to the unknown matches some of the mystique of genAI? Or perhaps these words are used […]
This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.
This paper is a great example of why you probably shouldn’t use a systematic literature review for a theoretical and conceptual research question like “How does artificial intelligence affect the perception of authenticity and aura in art?” However, if you’re looking for an annotated list of 48 recent articles about […]
Jeremy
it is from the online comic strip xkcd. it was last week or so.
Tore
Hey there, Jill. The ¸bermap comes from xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe, and was featured on Boing-Boing about a week ago or so. Consider the map properly referenced 😉
tormodh
This is from the brilliant creator of the webcomic XKCD. (Source is: http://xkcd.com/c256.html)
Jill
Why thank you, all! Excellent.
William Wend
I love how Usenet is basically characterized as being the internet Atlantis.
Esther
People have also started adding their own versions to the ‘unmapped’ sections, for example this one from MMOG Nation:
http://www.mmognation.com/2007/05/02/mmog-map/