
- 112 pages
- English
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Humanities in the Time of AI
About this book
Why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance and significance
If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series List
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1. An Essay in Paradoxical Optimism
- 2. Perspectives and Disciplines
- 3. AI Is Us
- 4. We Are Not AI
- 5. Naming the Human(ities)
- 6. The Ongoing Reprogramming
- 7. A Turing Intermezzo
- 8. The Oeuvre of the Humanities
- 9. A Platonic Interlude
- 10. The Ethical Fallacy
- 11. Descriptions and Interpretations
- 12. Corpus Expansions
- 13. Dilettantes and Technicists
- 14. Subjects and Persons
- 15. An Opening
- Author Biography
- Acknowledgments