To understand this new wave of technology with ChatGPT at the forefront, we can start with John Searle’s famous Chinese Room thought experiment from 1980, which conceals the most annoying stereotype of computational machines in the guise of…[^6]: Yuk Hui, Art and Cosmotechnics (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
[^7]: See Yuk Hui, “On the End of Philosophy,” e-flux journal no. 134 (March 2023).
[^8]: Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univoca…
Avram Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky appears only as a passing reference in these course excerpts, invoked implicitly through Searle's critique of computational semantics rather than directly discussed. His foundational work on formal language and generative grammar underpins the philosophical debates about whether machines can truly understand meaning—a central tension the course explores through Searle's Chinese Room and contemporary AI systems like ChatGPT. While not foregrounded in the readings provided, Chomsky's theories of language structure remain a ghost in discussions of what computational systems can and cannot do.
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