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Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse
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A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence. If speech has long been an emblem of the human species, then talking machines seem to be harbingers of some kind of technological singularity. Indeed, if the brilliance—or at least eloquence—of...
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A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence.
If speech has long been an emblem of the human species, then talking machines seem to be harbingers of some kind of technological singularity. Indeed, if the brilliance—or at least eloquence—of large language models is any indication, we seem to be poised at the threshold of general AI, a form of artificial intelligence that will not only surpass human intelligence but maybe even replace humans altogether.
This slim text lays out a critical genealogy of the highly contested relation between human values, machinic parameters, and corporate powers. It also provides a theory of the reasons for, and effects of, our current social and technological horizon.
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ISBN: 9781734643558
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 September 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 114.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 60
About the Author
Paul Kockelman teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, The Anthropology of Intensity, and The Chicken and the Quetzal.
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