The Genesis of Generative Grace

They seemed to come out of nowhere and were inescapable: the stories about 'Artificial Intelligence'. Wonder – or was it awe? – for what OpenAI's model is capable of, overtook critical reflection on what Large Language Models exactly do, on why we all started using them en masse, on why these astonishing applications were unleashed on the world right now, on how we can employ these developments properly.

Ben Caudron seeks answers to these and other questions in 'de genese van generatieve genade'. In this keynote, he places the current 'Generative AI' in the broader context of the political economy of AI and proposes a framework for a critical analysis of the narratives about the future of the field. In this framework, ideas about data commons and algorithm transparency are central. He does not have definitive answers. Pressing questions, on the other hand…