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…[^12]: Brian Cantwell Smith, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment (MIT Press, 2019). I engaged more with Smith’s argument in chapter 3 of Art and Cosmotechnics (e-flux and University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
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