Go to playlab.ai and experiment with the prompt that the researchers used in this piece. For example, they are using different interfaces and limits than playlab.ai allows. So, tweek the instructions to fit with our constraints. Then, write up your sixth blog post on what your experiment was, what you expected, and how the AI(s) did or didn’t meet those expectations. Finally assess implications for creativity and ethics.
Fifth Blog Posts Prompt
After reading the assignment for Monday, write a post on what this has to do with ethics. That is, connect this idea of creativity to ethics in some way. You could also write a story or do something else creative that gets at this connection. I’ll leave that up to you…
Fourth Blog Posts
For this post, work on your relation to AI infrastructure. So, for example, investigate the data center situation in your county (especially if you’re from/ in NOVA) or locally (Fredericksburg). Then, connect yourself to it in terms of responsibility (or lack of responsibility/freedom from responsibility). This is not your final statement on this, but an initial impression given your research. Or, you might try to find details about how your favorite AI model is powered. What is required infrastructure-wise? And, how are you connected to this?
Third Blog Prompt
For this assignment you have a few options. They all involve using your imagination and trying to understand both the capacities and limits of imagination. Here are some ways to do this:
Option 1: Construct a bot in playlab.ai, which you link to in your post. The bot should be constructed to emulate a person, creature, real or imagined. That is, it can be a real person, an animal, a fictional person from literature or other media, basically, you’re free to experiment. The point, though should be to get the bot to provide plausible responses about “What it is like” to be whoever or whatever it is. Recall the different tools you have available in playlab.
Option 2: Write a story that takes up some perspective or another that is alien in some way to your own. Here, you don’t need to use AI. But, there should be something like self-reflection by the entity you create such that the reader can get a feel of what it is like to be that person or other entity.
Option 3: Imagine what it is like to be something or someone who is not you and write something from that perspective. I suppose this is just a specific form of Option 2.
Second Blog Post Prompt
After interacting with 2 models in playlab.ai, [link is to Claude 4 Opus with instructions for discussing consciousness] discuss your experience and how it makes you feel about AI and/or AI consciousness. You might also link it to any of the conceptual material we’ve discussed so far in class. Be sure to quote from your interaction at least once and cite it properly.