AI

  • AI as sociotechnical systems (I)

    This event is part of Greaterthan’s Annual Solstice Jamboree, taking place from June 21 – July 21, 2023. See all events. With recent developments, tech tools called “AI” are more visible and […]

  • AI as sociotechnical systems (II)

    This event is part of Greaterthan’s Annual Solstice Jamboree, taking place from June 21 – July 21, 2023. See all events. With recent developments, tech tools called “AI” are more visible and […]

  • information processing

    « The first methods for representing human activities on computers were derived from the work-rationalization methods that industrial engineers had been developing since the 1910s. Hence the phrase ‘information processing’: […]

  • Intelligence contest: generative AI vs slime mold semiosis

    On May 8, the second seminar in the Technosemiotics discussion series explores the conceptual apparatus offered by biosemiotics and its cybernetics-inspired analytical models.

  • Know thyself and beyond™, A postphenomenological mediational analysis of transhuman AI and the self 

    The third Technosemiotics seminar on May 29 features Jared Smith offering a postphenomenological perspective on AI and the philosophy of transhumanism.

  • Large Technical System

    The conception of AI as a Large Technical System (LTS) – system artefact, system technology, infrastructural technology (Vannuccini & Prytkova 2020) “The study of AI as LTS uncovers active mechanisms […]

  • Model collapse and the semiosphere

    This article explains the idea of ‘model collapse’. According to Nicolas Papernot, “It’s kind of a reinforcing feedback loop where you only listen to the majority and you start forgetting […]

  • Podcast on language models with Joanna Bryson and Daniel Leufer

    In the past few days, generative Artificial Intelligence systems like ChatGPT and Stability AI have caught great attention. In the first part of the podcast, we discuss to what extent […]

  • Technosemiotics: languaging

    On June 19, we discuss embodied cognition with Theres Fester-Seeger.

  • Technosemiotics: structuralism and AI [RESCHEDULING]

    Unfortunately, we need to reschedule this session as well. Stay tuned for updates! // Michael Castelle on structuralism and AI //