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SUMMARY:Being a Person in the Age of Slop and Super-Tools - Professor Alan
  Blackwell\, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design\, Fellow\, Darwin Colle
 ge
DTSTART:20251014T121000Z
DTEND:20251014T130000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The news media report daily on the future of creative professi
 ons\, as generative AI writes novels\, renders films\, and produces music.
  Yet every human has the "creative profession" of constructing themselves 
 as a person. How does this change when AI businesses\, social media and re
 commender algorithms get involved in telling our life stories? This talk w
 ill look at some of the fundamentals of machine learning and information t
 heory\, providing critical perspective on creative tools\, AI slop and bul
 lshit\, and suggesting new opportunities for the algorithms of the future 
 that enhance human life rather than degrading it.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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