9781734643558
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.
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.
60 pages | 4.5 x 7 | © 2024
History: History of Technology
Language and Linguistics: Anthropological/Sociological Aspects of Language
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Table of Contents
1 The Edge
2 Human Semiosis
3 Machine Semiosis
4 Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning
5 Labor and Discipline
6 Parrot Power
7 Language without Mind or World
8 Meta-Semiosis and Monsters
9 The Problem with Alignment
2 Human Semiosis
3 Machine Semiosis
4 Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning
5 Labor and Discipline
6 Parrot Power
7 Language without Mind or World
8 Meta-Semiosis and Monsters
9 The Problem with Alignment
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