Raphaël Millière

Public engagement

I'm passionate about public engagement, and enjoy communicating about my research to a general audience through articles, podcasts, and public events. If you are interested in my work, feel free to reach out about writing or speaking opportunities.

 Writing

• AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation

  Magazine article · 2022
  Wired Magazine

  An article about AI art, and the ways in which it expands the notion of artistic curation.

• Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial Intelligence

  Magazine article · 2022
  Nautilus Magazine

  An article about the capacities, limitations, and potential risks of large pre-trained AI models.

• Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit

  Magazine article · 2020
  Nautilus Magazine

  An article about the recent progress of language generation algorithms in relation to the concept of “bullshit” as characterized by Harry Frankfurt.

 Media

• Artificial Mimicry and Beyond

  Talk · 2022
  Entertainment Technology Center at USC

  A general audience talk on the recent progress of large models in AI and how they perform a form of artificial mimicry that has potentially concerning ethical implications.

• Video Interview About Artificial Intelligence

  Video interview · 2022
  Nautilus Behind The Scenes

  An interview about my Nautilus article regarding the capacities, limitations, and potential risks of large pre-trained AI models.

• Interview About the Future of AI

  Podcast episode · 2022
  The Inside View

  A long-form conversation on the progress and future of artificial intelligence, spanning topics such as the definition of AI, the nature of intelligence, natural language understanding, out-of-distribution generalization, the benefits and limitations of scaling AI models, existential risk, and compositionality.

• Interview About GPT-3 and Artificial Intelligence

  Podcast episode · 2020
  Embrace The Void

  A discussion about the natural language processing algorithm GPT-3, and its potential benefits and risks to society.

• Interview About Consciousness in Drug-Induced States

  Podcast episode · 2017
  The Consciousness Podcast

  A two-part discussion about recent research on alterations of consciousness induced by psychoactive drugs, and its implications for a scientific understanding of consciousness.

 Events

• Computation in the Brain and Neurophilosophy

  Panel discussion · 2022
  Columbia Neuroscience Society · New York

  A discussion with computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.

• Drugs, Behavior, and the Future of Medicine

  Panel discussion · 2022
  Columbia Neuroscience Society · New York

  A discussion with Diana Martinez, Carl Hart, and Christopher Medina-Kirchner.

• Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  Panel discussion · 2022
  Columbia Science Review · New York

  A discussion with computer scientist Rebecca Wright.

• Moving Humans

  Public experiment · 2019
  Tate Modern · London

  A public experiment on the relationship between taste and motion perception, organized with Barry C. Smith and Ophelia Deroy.

• The New Science of Psychedelics

  Panel discussion · 2019
  Cheltenham Science Festival · Cheltenham

  A discussion with neuroscientist Christopher Timmermann, moderated by journalist Kate Spicer.

• Philosophy and the Senses

  Public experiment · 2019
  How The Light Gets In Festival · London

  A public experiment on abstract associations between scents and colors.

• The Scents of Rothko

  Public experiment · 2019
  Getty Center · Los Angeles

  A public experiment on visual-olfactory associations between scents and paintings by Mark Rothko, organized for the special event Dreaming in Color.