UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
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I'm publishing a new book next year, which will help launch the Replay series at the University of Chicago Press https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/REPLAY.html
I'm writing about #AnimalCrossing, #fatherhood, #disability, the #Covid-19 pandemic, whether #games can take care of us, and if we want them to try
Things are moving along nicely with my next book.
Not ready to announce yet, but this is one of the things I bought for research.
Three questions about AI and literature
https://write.as/nwf/three-questions-about-ai-and-literature
@toroe pointed me to an online essay about playable #game quotes (e.g. #Doom):
@ekaltman, @JoeOsborn and @nwf: "From the Presupposition of Doom to the Manifestation of Code: Using Emulated Citation in the Study of Games and Cultural Software"
https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/15/1/000501/000501.html
Some important work on "AI" shows problems with general purpose abstract systems for imitating textual patterns. Yet, transformer-based feedforward networks like GPT-4 and Llama can't consistently reproduce many kinds of textual structure that are straightforward for people!
They don't model negation: ask it to write poetry that doesn't rhyme. (what works is to ask it to write in the style of Rupi Kaur - or Allen Ginsberg - less famous non-rhymers won't work).
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