UiB AI #17 AI, Language and Identity
The first UiB AI seminar of the year, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, is about language models and how they affect human communication, narratives and identity.
The first UiB AI seminar of the year, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, is about language models and how they affect human communication, narratives and identity. When it comes to language models generating text, AI competence should invole textual competence.
If we use language to create identity, how does it affect us to use an LLM to write for us? How can literary theory and narratology help us understand how "AI friends" work? Why can it be dangerous when an "AI friend" mixes fiction and reality, and how can literaty theory and narratology help us understand what's happening?
The seminar will be streamed, and the link (also to the recording, for those who cannot follow in real time) will come here.
PROGRAMME:
10:00 Coffee/tea
10:15-10:30 Hanna-Riikka Roine, Associate Professor, digital culture (games & digital narratives): Affirmative narrative: Mechanisms that aim at maximising engagement with LLM chatbots
10:30-10:45 Scott Rettberg, Professor, Director of the Center for Digtial Narrative: The Human Function: Writing with AI
10:45-11:00 Jill Walker Rettberg, Professor, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative: LLMs are metaphor machines, and that’s a problem for science writing
11:00-11:15 Zahra Rizvi, Post.Doc at the Centet for Digital Narrative: Happy (AI) Ever After: storytelling strategies behind AI companionship
11:15-11:30 Questions and comments
11:30 Light lunch and mingling
The moderatior is Mahaut de Vareilles, Scientific Project Manager and Research Advisor at the Centre for Digital Narrative.
UIB AI SEMINAR SERIES
The series provide a meeting point for UiB colleagues and students, as well as external partners, whose interests coincide in themes related to artificial intelligence.
UiB AI
UiB AI is established in order to coordinate and make visible what is happening around artificial intelligence at UiB, and to enable collaboration and contact with partners outside of UiB.
UiB has strong and internationally recognized research groups in fundamental and applied AI research in all its faculties. No other university in Norway has such a comprehensive competence in the fundaments and applications of artificial intelligence.