The Poetics and Power of Small Language Models

In February 2024 I delivered the keynote address at the DHU8 symposium, the eighth annual digital humanities conference sponsored by seven of Utah's largest universities. Now, well over a year later, I am finally sharing a lightly edited version of my talk. There's a simple reason for the long delay: in my talk I preview… Continue reading The Poetics and Power of Small Language Models

AI Dungeon and Creativity

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In early January I joined a group of AI researchers from Microsoft and my fellow humanist Kathleen Fitzpatrick to talk at the Modern Language Association convention about the implications of artificial intelligence. Our panel was called Being Human, Seeming Human. Each participant came to this question of "seeming human" from a different angle. My own focus… Continue reading AI Dungeon and Creativity