Global Visions: Reo, Ahurea Research Seminar
4:15pm, Friday 15 August in Elsie Locke 104A
Zoom ID: 967 1466 7728
Kleinberg, Wintermute, and Des Maladies Mentales: Reading Hallucinating Language Models with Graphs
The usage of two terms, “hallucination” or “confabulation,” to describe the discrepancies in the output of generative AI suggests, based on these terms critical and cultural lineages, particular kinds of structural and systemic flaws. This talk explores those lineages in clinical, theoretical, and creative literatures and suggests a critical and a technical approach for understanding the perceived structural origins of these discrepancies.
Ben Miller is Senior Lecturer in Storytelling with the Department of English at UC. For 20 years, his work has been about how new technologies are used by communities to tell stories of survival and how computational media changes the ways we collectively produce and read stories. Prior to joining UC this year, Ben was a Teaching Professor of Digital Humanities at Emory University, he helped found the Creative Media Industries Institute at Georgia State, spent a few years in Boston with Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and taught in the College of Computing as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech.
