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In 2021, the novelist and journalist Vauhini Vara asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister’s death, resulting in an essay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have imagined.
Open to Stanford community members! We are hosting an interactive orientation featuring faculty insights, networking, and opportunities to explore AI and data science research, programs, and resources across Stanford.
Open to Stanford community members! We are hosting an interactive orientation featuring faculty insights, networking, and opportunities to explore AI and data science research, programs, and resources across Stanford.
As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.
As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
It quickly went viral. The experience, revealing both the power and the danger of corporate-owned technologies, led Vara on an investigation of what we gain and what we lose when we use large language models to help us communicate. In this seminar, she will discuss this experience and other similar literary experiments with AI models — including what happened when she fed most of her recently released book Searches into ChatGPT and asked for feedback — as a springboard to discuss the difference between human- and AI-produced text and how AI could change the way all of us, writers or not, communicate.
