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What jazz taught me about boundary objects and interdisciplinary collaboration

What jazz taught me about boundary objects and interdisciplinary collaboration

by Katherine Wyers | Jan 23, 2025 | Boundary Objects

I’ve been reading a lot about boundary objects lately. Boundary objects are loosely-defined artifacts, categories, or documents that facilitate partial cooperation across communities of practice (Star and Griesemer 1989). The basic concept is that you can have...
AI and memory: Are we letting the machines help us to forget?

AI and memory: Are we letting the machines help us to forget?

by Katherine Wyers | Jan 15, 2025 | AI

I was recently chatting over lunch with a researcher. We were discussing AI, and whether large language models like ChatGPT produce anything new, or whether they only reuse what is already there. Generative large language models determine what word comes next using...

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