This week we are leaning into multiple metaphors: AI as a mirror, UX design as a window or room, and life as information. Plus: read about Michael Levin's upcoming presentation at the Imagining Summit, Helen's Book of the Week, and our upcoming events.
It’s easy to fall prey to the design illusion that because LLMs look sleek, they must be well-designed. But aesthetics alone do not equal design. As Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.”
It’s curious that these two papers, tackling such similar ideas, came out at the same time. Is this coincidence, or does it tell us something about where the study of life and intelligence is heading?
In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world.
In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world.
Here are some of the links we refer to in the episode:
http://www.chelsbar.com
https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/chelsea-barabas/
https://medium.com/@chelsea_barabas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/pretrial-ai.html
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca31.3.01/367
https://discardstudies.com/2016/08/08/ethnographic-refusal-a-how-to-guide/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/421/tab-article-info
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
