Birth of Cool in AI Age: LLMs as Dictators of Taste (In collaboration with TUNI)
In collaboration with TUNI
How do we know what songs are worth listening to? Or places to visit? Or what gift to give to our friend of very specific tastes? In fact, how does our friend, or you for that matter, know what you like? In his seminal work Distinction, Pierre Bourdieu demonstrated that taste is never an innocent personal preference; it is an embodied social marker of capital, classification, and symbolic power. Even if we do not assign an AI language model any humanity, we ask it to make recommendations and decisions based on matters of taste, and thus force it to take a position, and then give it power over matters of taste.In this session Professor of Practice in Experience Economy Miika Salmi Lipiäinen and researcher Sanni Pöntinen from Tampere University’s GPT Lab discuss how LLMs influence us as decision- and taste-makers, and present a few alternative future utopias and dystopias.
In collaboration with TUNI
The program is in English.