Last Words: Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse
Author:   Paul Kockelman
Publisher:   Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
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9781734643558


Pages:   60
Publication Date:   05 September 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Last Words: 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 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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Author:   Paul Kockelman
Publisher:   Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Imprint:   Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.172kg
ISBN:  

9781734643558


ISBN 10:   1734643552
Pages:   60
Publication Date:   05 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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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