Event attendees in the Henley Board Room, with the Santa Ynez Mountains in the background
HUML Launch Event Recap
On Friday, January 25th, the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning (HUML) hosted its inaugural event in the Henley Board Room of Mosher Alumni House. Faculty, students, and administrators from across humanities departments at UCSB gathered to hear Hannes Bajohr's keynote, titled "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles." Afterwards, a Q&A brought up important questions of consciousness, creativity, and communication. HUML Co-Directors Fabian Offert and Rita Raley also discussed their forthcoming book projects, and HUML graduate researcher Owen Leonard discussed the role of the center and plans for the future.
(left to right) Co-Director Fabian Offert, keynote speaker Hannes Bajohr, Co-Director Rita Raley, and graduate researcher Owen Leonard