Tag: creativity
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Weekly digest 32
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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AI for research – African Doctoral Academy
I gave this presentation on AI in research for participants at the African Doctoral Academy. I highlighted the fact that generative AI as a sophisticated tool that predicts text and generates coherent multimodal content. The presentation discussed AI’s potential in roles like idea generation and data analysis, its current limitations like bias, and emphasised the…
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Podcast: Using language models to support thinking
in AIhttps://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/using-chatgpt-as-a-copilot-for-your-mind/ “In this episode, Nathan chats to Dan Shipper, CEO and Co-founder of Every, for the series “How I Use Chat-GPT”. They discuss Nathan’s prompting techniques for creative and cognitive labour, and using GPT in copilot instead of delegation mode.” I got a lot of practical advice out of this episode. Strongly recommended if you’re…
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On being an academic
I wake up every day, and get to begin my day by working on problems that are intellectually and creatively fascinating to me. Linus Lee (2022). On Proving Yourself. Every now and again, I’m reminded of what an enormous privilege it is to be an academic.
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Hallucinations aren’t a problem to be fixed
A few months ago I wrote a post explaining that language models don’t sometimes hallucinate; they always hallucinate. “…every single response is a creative endeavour. It just happens to be the case that most of the responses we get map onto our expectations; we compare the response against our (human) models of reality.” So I…
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Link: Minimal movie posters
in Notehttps://mossandfog.com/super-minimal-movie-posters-of-famous-films/
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Fruitbots Offer a Bizarre Twist on Robotic Design
https://mossandfog.com/fruitbots-offer-a-bizarre-twist-on-robotic-design/
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Art: Michael Davydov’s Miniature Worlds
in Notehttps://mossandfog.com/michael-davydovs-miniature-worlds/
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Bing allows you to modulate the amount of ‘hallucination’ in your response
Last week I wrote about LLM hallucinations, and how this isn’t the problem that everyone thinks it is. “I expect that soon we’ll see language models with features that allow us to modulate the output in some way. We may want to dial up creativity or serendipity, in which case we’ll see less overlap with…
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Language models don’t sometimes hallucinate. They always hallucinate.
By now, most people have come across the issue of language models like GPT hallucinating, where the model generates an output that’s unrelated to the prompt. Or, you may find that the generated responses increasingly diverge from the topic (as the error rate in the model accumulates over increasingly long sessions). When the response generated…
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Weekly digest (12-18 Jun 2023)
Podcasts I’ve been thinking about podcasts a lot this past week, in relation to a project I’m trying to get off the ground at work. Specifically, I’m thinking about podcasting as a legitimate scholarly activity, and trying to figure out how to set things up to make it as easy as possible for colleagues to…
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Using Obsidian for academic writing and creativity
In this conversation with Dave Nicholls, I describe how I use Obsidian to support my academic writing and creative process, in response to Dave’s question: Is using Obsidian worth it? I explain how I’ve set up different vaults in Obsidian, depending on what it is that I’m trying to do, and use examples from my…
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Lessons about creativity…
Every now and again, I re-read Eight marvelous & melancholy things I’ve learned about creativity, by The Oatmeal. My favourite segment is Creativity is like breathing.
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I can’t help but feel like Lego has lost its way a little bit
in LearningWe’re trying to figure out what to get my daughter for Christmas and I’ve been a disappointed with the way that I see Lego marketing it’s products. There’s clearly an option that’s designed to appeal to boys and a different option for girls. In the past, you just had Lego, where anyone can build anything.…
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Weekly digest (02-06 Jul 2021)
The Artificial Inventor Project. A federal court in Australia has ruled in our favor and ordered our patent application for an AI-generated invention reinstated by IP Australia. Abbot, R. (2021). A Federal Court in Australia has Held AI-Generated Inventions are Patentable. The Artificial Inventor Project. And also… Today, the Artificial Inventor Project successfully obtained the…