Previously in Livescu

Past Events, Previously in Livescu

Natural Sociability and Political Association

A two-day workshop held on December 12 and 13, 2024, at UCLA, on the history of human sociality. Entitled ‘Natural Sociability and Political Association: Grounding Contemporary Responses to AI in an Intellectual History of Human Sociality’, the workshop consists in 15 core members composed of faculty and graduate students, who will meet together in 6 sessions, each of 90 minutes, held across two successive days.

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.

Past Events, Previously in Livescu

Inaugural Workshop

Inaugural workshop held during September 2024 at the Institute for Society & Genetics at UCLA on the topic of midcentury brain science. Cross-fertilizing cultural, political, intellectual, and technical-scientific history, this workshop’s contributions ask: How did the midcentury brain sciences ramify across cultural and political discourses, and simultaneously, how did these discourses shape the technical affordances and practices of these brain sciences?

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