Ep 40 - Can a Machine Have Good Taste?

About this episode

The episode explores the intersection of AI and storytelling through a conversation with Lan Wei about creative choices and the concept of taste.

I was interested in what was going on with Openclaw and heard that Lan Wei, a PHD at MBZUAI had won a hackathon experimenting with the edges of a new technology. Turns out her keen interest is the intersection between AI and storytelling. We talked about the reasoning behind creative choices and explored the idea of chaos in agentic systems ad their iteraction with humans creatively. We debated whether taste can be educated, examined the value of inefficiency and what makes life w...

People in this episode

Host: Tediophobes

Guest: Lan Wei

Topics covered

• AI
• storytelling
• creative choices
• chaos
• agentic systems
• taste
• inefficiency

Keywords

• AI
• storytelling
• creative choices
• taste
• inefficiency
• chaos
• agentic systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MBZUAI, Openclaw

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