Last Words - by Paul Kockelman (Paperback)

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A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence.
About the Author: Paul Kockelman teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University.
60 Pages
Computers + Internet, Natural Language Processing

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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.

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.

Dimensions (Overall): 6.9 Inches (H) x 4.5 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)

Weight: .26 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 60

Genre: Computers + Internet

Sub-Genre: Natural Language Processing

Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Paul Kockelman

Language: English

Street Date: September 5, 2024

TCIN: 1006101314

UPC: 9781734643558

Item Number (DPCI): 247-50-1826

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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