The No-Body Problem
Workshop in 18th century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem,”.
Previously in Livescu
Why Turing Was Wrong: Machines, Language and Citizenship
Talk by Joshua F. Dienstag, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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”.