So far “telling a satisfying and well-written medium-length story” has proved far harder for LLMs than mathematical proofs, music generation, research reports, code, and many other forms of work.
The technical reasons are pretty clear, but they are supposed to be language models
Nyt studie viser, at bøger sagtens rumme stor litterær værdi, selvom de ikke får femstjernede anmeldelser. @textculture.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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For those of you who read Danish 🇩🇰, here's an article based on an interview I did about language evolution and LLMs. We discuss how LLMs are forcing language scientists to rethink biological constraints on language (despite differences between humans and LLMs)
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It is a remarkable book. Thanks for letting us read along. Congrats.
It is a remarkable book. Thanks for letting us read along. Congrats.
Preorders are now available! press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...
@madsrt.bsky.social is giving the first talk of the "Literature and AI" online seminar on November 25, followed by the editors of the splendid "Routledge Handbook of Literature and AI, Genevieve Liveley and Will Slocombe. See link and the full program here: www.hiof.no/forskning/sa...
📅 4 December: Talk by Tina Paulsen Christensen: "Exploring Students’ and Teachers’ Partnerships with Generative AI Tools"
See the details on our website: shorturl.at/TFjQi
Save the dates for TEXT Talks and a book presentation in the months to come:
📅 20 October: Online book presentation by Leif Weatherby
📅 11 November: Talk by Karin Christiansen: "wrAIte – Exploring AI-assisting writing for inclusion and empowerment of adult learners"
Above all, how can we understand the effects of AI on text culture, which is, in essence, quite different from many other technologies, by using the same medium as our innermost thoughts? 4/4
From a Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text perspective, it is, of course, interesting how little writing takes up in the report: Will people be less skilled? Will writing be more efficient but also more uniform? 3/4
And a document to how quickly things can change: companies catching up to OpenAI, smaller models becoming widespread, open source not lacking far behind, etc. There is much to learn about the current - rapidly evolving - situation and the vast infrastructure that is being built. 2/4
WHERE IS TEXT CULTURE IN THE GREAT SEA OF AI?
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)'s annual report on AI is again fascinating and very useful reading that helps put things in a bigger picture: lnkd.in/gZCi9EfB. 1/4
TEXT invites to our opening reception on May 1 at 1 pm at Aarhus University. If you're in town, sign up here: arts.au.dk/en/text/even....
Det er en stor fornøjelse at byde @madsrt.bsky.social & Rebekah Baglini og holdet bag TEXT-centeret velkommen. Vi glæder os til at følge centrets arbejde m at udforske tekstens rolle i samtidens kultur – og til mange inspirerende samtaler på tværs af fakultetet.
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TEXT: Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text opens on April 1st, 2025, thanks to a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation. Learn more about us here: arts.au.dk/en/text
