Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Brian Cantwell Smith is a philosopher of artificial intelligence whose work distinguishes between computation's mechanistic limitations and the situated judgment required for genuine intelligence. His *The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment* appears in this course as a critical counterpoint to claims of machine intelligence, helping ground discussions about whether AI can move beyond reflexive operation toward something resembling understanding. Smith's emphasis on judgment and reckoning becomes central to arguments that differentiate between the logic of cybernetics and the capacities needed for meaningful human-machine interaction in artistic and social contexts.

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Yuk Hui ChatGPT

or the Eschatology of Machines - Journal #137

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If the opposition between mechanism and organism characterizes a grand debate of modern philosophy, determining the direction of its development, then the debate persists today, when so many of the statements discrediting AI and ChatGPT ass…The “intelligence” found in machines today is a reﬂective form of operation, as both Gotthard Günther and Gilbert Simondon rightly observed. For Günther, cybernetics is the realization of Hegel’s logic, while for Simondon, it was only in th…[^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…

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