Last Words

Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse

Paul Kockelman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

60 Seiten

2024
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC (Verlag)
9781734643558 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2024
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	114 x 178 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781734643558 / 9781734643558
Zustand	Neuware