Callum Dean
Version Space is a series of pamphlets transcribing conversations among artists and graduate students in visual art regarding Artificial Intelligence and related topics, convened and edited by Angie Keefer in collaboration with Library Stack, and funded by Library Stack and the Artistic Research program of the Sandberg Instituut, where Keefer was a research fellow in the Department of Fine Arts for the academic years 2018-19 and 2019-20. The conversations take place via videoconference, are recorded, transcribed by an AI, then edited for clarity by humans. The series title borrows from a machine learning framework conceived in the 1980s as a ...
The following conversation between K Allado-McDowell, Callum Dean, and myself occurred via Zoom on Wednesday, 14 July, 2021, at 9:00 New York/14:00 London. GPT-3 was subsequently invited, with Callum’s help, to respond at the end of the editing process to a series of prompts I selected from our conversation. Callum solicited multiple responses to each prompt, and I chose from among these the responses that I found most relevant and/or most surprising. In several instances, GPT-3’s entire, unedited response to a prompt has been included. In other cases, I have selected only a portion of an entire response, just as ...
