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Jon Ippolito

Professor of New Media
Director, Digital Curation graduate program
The University of Maine

Twitter/x: @jonippolito
Mastodon: @jonippolito@digipres.club
Bluesky: @jonippolito.bsky.social
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Is generative AI creative?

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Generative AI fabricates by averaging

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“I'm trying to plan a 22 mile trail route in a city in my state. I asked ChatGPT for route suggestions a few times and each time it just made stuff up--once it made up a trail that doesn't exist (to connect two other trails that do) and other times to say to go from one trail to another when the trails are miles apart”

—Katie, New Mexico, March 2023

⚠️ The average of two facts isn't necessarily a fact.

Generative AI creates by averaging

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Angelo Ippolito, Berkeley #37, collage
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George Legrady, AI-generated collages
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GPT-4 demo

Oddities of probability

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Opportunistic solutions

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Chance of two people out of 23 having the same birthday: 50.7%
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Chance of your next breath containing a molecule of Julius Caesar's dying breath: 98.2%

Opportunity v. prescription

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Opportunity v. prescription

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Creativity v. trust

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Opportunistic v. prescriptive tasks

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Sample demos of GPT-4

Write a Lesson Plan
Generate Multiple Choice Questions
Edit prose according to a standard
Act as a Socratic Tutor
Debug Code (Simple Syntax)
Debug Code (Simple Logic)
Conduct a Mock Interview
Analyze Reports and Visualize Data
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