Large Language Objects (LLO)

Large Language Models (LLM) have shown an unprecedented ability to generate human-like text and images, answer questions, and perform complex programming tasks, promising to have a profound impact on design. However, these models remain largely ignorant of the world outside of language, lacking context and knowledge of physical objects, our bodies and environments.

Large Language Objects (LLO) are a series of objects and physical interfaces for language models that extend their capabilities beyond the confines of chatbots and graphical user interfaces. By combining models such as ChatGPT, DALL·E, and custom trained classifiers, they reveal a host of new applications for artificial intelligence, from new ways of experiencing music or creating and telling stories, to new forms of playing and communicating.

Developed as part of MIT’s 4.043/4.044 Interaction Intelligence course, these Large Language Objects also provide a glimpse at a new kind of creative process that leverages the capabilities of generative AI from the early stages of concept development to coding, fabrication, and deployment.