Betaworks is hosting a week of events and discussions to explore the new creative frontiers opened up by generative AI. We’ve witnessed unprecedented developments in how artists and engineers are using generative AI to add creative agency to how we work and play. Over the course of 4 days we will be showcasing insights and projects from an exciting roster of builders and researchers.
About this Event:
Over the last two thousand years, text has inexplicably become the most ubiquitous and the least ergonomic user interface element in the world. We've moved from hand-scribed writing to software word processing, but the underlying material of knowledge is the same — a trail of cryptic characters, lined up next to each other.
Betaworks's very first Researcher in Residence, Linus Lee, has spent the last few months investigating and tinkering around the question of what a next step may look like. He'll walk us through a series of experiments and stories that poke at interesting futures, enabled by recent advances in ML, that may show glimpses into what it means to think in this third millennium.
Linus's independent research investigates the future of knowledge representation and creative work aided by machine understanding of language. He's interested in what comes after today’s language and writing systems, and what learning, creating, and collaborating may look like in the long future of humanity. He has spent the last year prototyping software interfaces and technologies that build on recent advances in NLP to imagine a few such possible futures, and bring some narrow slice of them to life. When he's not fixing language models or hacking on compilers, you can find him sprinting between missed subway stops from his home in East Village.
Betaworks is hosting a week of events and discussions to explore the new creative frontiers opened up by generative AI. We’ve witnessed unprecedented developments in how artists and engineers are using generative AI to add creative agency to how we work and play. Over the course of 4 days we will be showcasing insights and projects from an exciting roster of builders and researchers.
About this Event:
Over the last two thousand years, text has inexplicably become the most ubiquitous and the least ergonomic user interface element in the world. We've moved from hand-scribed writing to software word processing, but the underlying material of knowledge is the same — a trail of cryptic characters, lined up next to each other.
Betaworks's very first Researcher in Residence, Linus Lee, has spent the last few months investigating and tinkering around the question of what a next step may look like. He'll walk us through a series of experiments and stories that poke at interesting futures, enabled by recent advances in ML, that may show glimpses into what it means to think in this third millennium.
Linus's independent research investigates the future of knowledge representation and creative work aided by machine understanding of language. He's interested in what comes after today’s language and writing systems, and what learning, creating, and collaborating may look like in the long future of humanity. He has spent the last year prototyping software interfaces and technologies that build on recent advances in NLP to imagine a few such possible futures, and bring some narrow slice of them to life. When he's not fixing language models or hacking on compilers, you can find him sprinting between missed subway stops from his home in East Village.
How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge
We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.
Betaworks is hosting a week of events and discussions to explore the new creative frontiers opened up by generative AI. We’ve witnessed unprecedented developments in how artists and engineers are using generative AI to add creative agency to how we work and play. Over the course of 4 days we will be showcasing insights and projects from an exciting roster of builders and researchers.
About this Event:
Over the last two thousand years, text has inexplicably become the most ubiquitous and the least ergonomic user interface element in the world. We've moved from hand-scribed writing to software word processing, but the underlying material of knowledge is the same — a trail of cryptic characters, lined up next to each other.
Betaworks's very first Researcher in Residence, Linus Lee, has spent the last few months investigating and tinkering around the question of what a next step may look like. He'll walk us through a series of experiments and stories that poke at interesting futures, enabled by recent advances in ML, that may show glimpses into what it means to think in this third millennium.
