Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of organizations aiming to build AGI and asserting that their products are close to achieving it (Bubeck, et al., 2023; Cuthbertson, 2022). While a number of researchers have debated whether…For example, OpenAI’s leaders have described their tools as “slightly conscious” [112], and predict that “in the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice” [113]. Venkatasubramanian …
Shah
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Shah appears only as a passing reference in these excerpts, which seem to be discussing claims about AI consciousness and capability rather than engaging with the historical or political concept of kingship that the term denotes. The excerpts provided do not contain substantive discussion of Shah or its relevance to the seminar's concerns with AI, cybernetics, and their cultural implications, making it unclear how this person or concept functions within the course's theoretical framework.
Background
Shāh is a royal title meaning 'king' in Persian. Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to refer to the leaders of numerous Persianate societies and non-Islamic kingdoms, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Khanate of Bukhara and the Emirate of Bukhara, the Mughal Empire, the Maratha Empire, the Bengal Sultanate, and various Afghan dynasties, as well as among Gurkhas. With regard to Iranian history, in particular, each ruling monarch was not seen simply as the head of the concurrent dynasty and state, but as the successor to a long line of royalty beginning with the original Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. To this end, he was more emphatically known as the Shāhanshāh since the Achaemenid dynasty. A roughly equivalent title is Pādishāh, which was most widespread during the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent.
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