Kjell Wistoff, Conrad Weise

The workshop will contextualise recent AI systems according to their scale and within their vast infrastructure in that current developments in large language models manifest two main characteristics: as big as possible — and as open as necessary. The objective of this workshop is to examine approaches that utilise local computation to run these systems. Together we aim to provide a brief understanding of the internal mechanisms of large language models, their underlying structures, datasets and the implications of the corresponding user interfaces. The outcome of this workshop will be a collective performance, that will utilise chain reactions and feedback to create a closed loop, similar to a Rube Goldberg machine.

Participants must bring their own laptops

About

Kjell Wistoff and Conrad Weise are two researchers/artists currently working on our masterthesis Impersonal Computing Infrastructures, where they look at infrastructures and their perceivable interfaces in an entangled relationship that significantly shape user interactionat the interplay of convenience and agency.