2022/07/25

AI is the Overview Effect for Humanity, Says Poet and Transhuman Translator Sasha Stiles

“Large language models make me think of the profound experience of seeing the earth from space. Maybe AI is the overview effect for humanity. Maybe writing without a computer’s-eye view in this networked world is blinkered or even selfish.”
– Poet, artist, and AI researcher Sasha Stiles, on her experiments with GPT-2 and GPT-3. “We know that human bias frequently clouds our vision,“ notes the self-proclaimed transhuman translator. “Maybe posthumanism is a way of getting out of our own way.”
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