AI – Jill Walker Rettberg

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ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values

Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot released by OpenAI, and I’ve been fascinated by how much it does well and how it still gets a lot wrong. ChatGPT is a foundation model, that […]

AI and algorithmic culture

Generating research papers reveals our clichés

A few weeks ago Meta released Galactica, a language model that generates scientific papers based on a prompt you type in. They put it online and invited people to try it out, but had to remove it after just three days after […]

AI and algorithmic culture Presentations

My talk on caring AIs in recent sci-fi novels

I’m giving a talk at an actual f2f academic conference today, Critical Borders, Radical Re(visions) of AI, in Cambridge. I was particularly excited to see this conference because it’s organised by the people who edited AI Narratives A History of Imaginative Thinking […]

cover of the novel The Mother Code by Carole Stivers

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Robot mothers: The Mother Code

I’m fascinated by fleshy, emotional ideas about AI and robots. A lot of recent science fiction I’ve been reading explores this: what would a sentient, emotional AI be like? How would they experience the world? What would their material form mean? Would […]

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Jill Walker Rettberg

AI

ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values

Generating research papers reveals our clichés

My talk on caring AIs in recent sci-fi novels

Robot mothers: The Mother Code