Session 4: Building Shared Conceptual Grounding for Interacting with GenAI

The podcast features a presentation by a team discussing their project on integrating intelligence by building shared conceptual grounding for interacting with generative AI. The presentation begins with an analogy using Ansel Adams and his assistant to illustrate the importance of shared understanding in content creation. They then discuss the challenges of using current AI tools, highlighting the lack of shared conceptual grounding, which leads to unsatisfactory results and wasted time. The team shares their project's objectives: understanding human concepts in creative tasks and teaching AI systems these concepts. They present progress on experimental protocols for recording human communication during content creation and AI image generation tools that incorporate artists' concepts. The team also discusses the impact of their work, including academic publications, open-source software, and collaborations with industry partners like Roblox. They conclude by emphasizing the importance of human choices in AI-driven content creation and their commitment to outreach and education. The presentation ends with a Q&A session.