Natural Sociability & Political Association
A two-day workshop on the history of human sociality and political association.
Fall 2024 Faculty Seminar
Faculty Seminars to discuss the latest research in AI, neuroscience, and sociology.
Chatterbox, Previously in Livescu
Model Autophagy Disorder
Blog post on the model collapse phenomenon. The basic insight is that when AI models generate things—text, images, sound—and then those generated products are used to train a subsequent model, the new model actually gets worse at generating images and texts. Over a few generations it can fail completely, producing only a string of gibberish or a single same image over and over again.
Material Intelligence as Historical Problem
Workshop on the topic of midcentury brain science.
Can Humans Think?
Talk by Matthew Jones and Chris Wiggins, authors of “How Data Happened”.
Upcoming Events
Good Vibes Only
We are partnering with the UCLA Political Science Department, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, and the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies to host a talk by renowned independent scholar and editor Dr. Robin James about her upcoming book, “Good Vibes Only”.
Upcoming Events
Model Student – AI, Learning and the Classroom
What is it? Model Student is a collaborative project with students to construct an informational report aimed at understanding how students have been incorporating Artificial Intelligence (particularly Large Language Models)