WICHE Commission Meeting
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, were keynote speakers at the Western Insterstate Commission on Higher Education's meeting on the topic of AI & Higher Education.
Julia Rhodes Davis: Advancing Racial Equity in AI
In this episode, we speak with Julia Rhodes Davis, a Senior Advisor at Data & Society, about her recent report "Advancing Racial Equity Through Technology Policy" published by the AI Now Institute.
It's Time for ChatGPT to Grow Up
ChatGPT is about to celebrate its first birthday. It’s time for it to graduate from an experiment into a true product.
Why Nutcrackers Remember and GPT Doesn't
A new paper argues for analyzing AI systems like GPT through a "teleological" lens focused on the specific problem they were optimized to solve during training. 7 min read
Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence.
Why Generative AI Transparency Matters
New research from the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models shows that foundation models are largely mysterious.
Jai Vipra: Computational Power & AI
Jai Vipra is a research fellow at the AI Now Institute where she focuses on competition issues in frontier AI models. She recently published the report Computational Power and AI which focuses on compute as a core dependency in building large-scale AI.
Does Generative AI Need a New Business Model?
Here’s the issue: the current business model doesn’t make sense because increasing usage conflicts with profits.
The Intimacy Economy
Intimacy with technology has been the territory of science fiction. What happens if we are able to live those stories ourselves?
Wendy Wong: We, the Data, and Human Rights
An interview with University of British Columbia professor, Wendy Wong, about her book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age.
Apple & Edge AI
Apple isn’t being left behind in generative AI—it’s playing a different game. While every other tech company is spending billions on inference compute—Apple is being paid for it.
The Dual Power of Generative AI in Higher Education
Higher ed grapples with AI: Student learning and job impact top concerns, but confidence and preparedness vary. Proactive dialogue on AI needed.