Gordon Hull, LLM, Inc. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog, 27 February 2024 In previous posts (one, two, three), I’ve been exploring the issue of what I’m calling the implicit normativity in language models, especially those that have been trained with RLHF (reinforcement learning with human feedback). In the most recent one, I argued …
Karastergiou, A. AI and Madness (2023) In David Goodman, Matthew Clemente (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology, Routledge, 2023, pp. 281-292. DOI: 10.4324/9781003195849-28 Abstract Are the concepts of “madness” and “normality” applicable to modern AI technologies? In this chapter, we will endeavor on a journey to explore how Foucault’s conception of …
Rob Horning, From work to text, and back again: ChatGPT and the (new) death of the author, Overland, 23 February 2023 When he declared the death of the author, in 1968, Roland Barthes was attacking the idea that our understanding of any particular text should be conditioned or constrained by the person who happened to …
Giorgi Vachnadze, The Algorithmic Unconscious: Psychoanalyzing Artificial Intelligence, Non, 15 July 2023 I recently came across an article that caught my attention. Written just last year. It draws a parallel between AI and psychoanalysis. Which seemed until now two completely divergent fields. It argues that we can psychoanalyze an AI. But how would that make …
Nyman, S. The Birth of AI-driven Nudges (2023) Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2023-January, pp. 5252- 5261. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/103276 Abstract AI methods allow for a multitude of new forms of managerial control. One is algorithmic nudging, in which organizations use AI methods to control workers through targeted recommendations. Drawing upon Michel …
Artificial Intelligence | Beyond right and wrong News editor, Global News, 1 April 2023 The question of artificial intelligence (AI) concerns me both as a doctor and as a fiction writer. And not only since she promises to take my place in these two professions that I love! I welcome the recent proposal by AI …
Saffron Huang, Chat GPT and the death of the author, The New Statesman, 26 February 2023 In 1967, in an essay called “The Death of the Author”, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes argued that people should stop viewing the author’s intentions and biography as the ultimate source of meaning in a text. A text’s …
Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 1: What is an (AI) Author? By Gordon Hull, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 06 February 2023 Large Language Models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT burst into public consciousness sometime in the second half of last year, and Chat-GPT’s impressive results have led to a wave of …
Michel Foucault on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and the Disappearance of the Human, Theoretical Puppets, 9 January 2023 This video explores the use (and potential misuse) of ChatGPT. The experimental dialog it features was created by means of this large language model. The result is baffling, seemlessly flowing in appearance but including some completely invented quotations …
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