chi si iscrive all'evento riceve il link al paper di Gefen "AI: a Deep
History" che si apre con questo abstract:
Artificial Intelligence must be considered as a total cultural
question and not only as a technological advance. This is a project
of the CulturIA team funded by the French National Research Agency
that I launched in January.
In this presentation, I will show that it is particularly necessary
to make the long history of AI, exploring both the complex advance
of science and the myths and fictions of AI, which go back to the
most remote antiquity.
sono prospettive che sono circolate spesso qui in lista nel dibattito
sui sistemi di IA
la prospettiva francese potrebbe portare spunti nuovi ad una riflessone
che vede dominante il contesto culturale anglofono/angloamericano.
Maurizio
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"GENERATIVE AI"
Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 3:30-5:00 (U.S. Pacific time)
Transcriptions Center (South Hall 2509), or attend through Zoom
Open to all
EVENT DESCRIPTION
At this hybrid in-person and virtual event (open to all) on "Generative
AI," Alexandre Gefen will be present in person to discuss his
pre-circulated paper on "AI: a Deep History," followed by responses by
Professors Fabian Offert (Germanic & Slavic Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
and Rita Raley (English, UC Santa Barbara).
Alexandre Gefen – Director of Research at the French CNRS (National
Center for Scientific Research) Theory and History of Modern Art and
Literature Unit UMR7172, THALIM, CNRS / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle -
Paris 3) – is a historian of ideas and literature. He is the author of
numerous articles and essays on culture, contemporary literature and
literary theory. Founder of Fabula.org, he was one of the pioneers of
Digital Humanities in France. He discovered the uses of AI for research
(word vectors, topic modeling) at the Stanford Literary Lab as part of
the project "For an empirical history of literature", Transatlantic
program for collaborative work in the field of digital humanities, which
he co-sponsored with Franco Moretti (FMSH Paris-Fellon Foundation).
Following on his directorship of a research program devoted to the
fictions of Artificial Intelligence (ia-fictions.net), he is now the
principal investigator of the ANR project "CulturIA, for a cultural
history of AI".
The event is organized by the Comparative Literature Program and the
English Department's Transcriptions Center at UC Santa Barbara. It is
open to all, and can be attended in person or through Zoom (see below).
PRE-CIRCULATED PAPER
"AI: a Deep History" – By Alexandre Gefen (pre-circulated by request or
through event registration; see below)
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence must be considered as a total cultural
question and not only as a technological advance. This is a project of
the CulturIA team funded by the French National Research Agency that I
launched in January. In this presentation, I will show that it is
particularly necessary to address the long history of AI, exploring both
the complex advance of science and the myths and fictions of AI, which
go back to the most remote antiquity.
Respondents: Fabian Offert and Rita Raley (https://zentralwerkstatt.org/,
http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/)
EVENT LOCATION (& SIMULTANEOUS ZOOM MEETING)
The Generative AI event will take place in the Transcriptions Center,
South Hall 2509, on Tuesday Feb. 1, 2022, with Alexandre physically
present. In awareness that on that date the UCSB campus will be
transitioning back from remote activities to in-person instruction and
other events, we also welcome participation by campus and worldwide
participants through a simultaneous, real-time Zoom meeting (advance
registration required). The audience may thus choose to attend in person
or online.
To receive a copy of Alexandre Gefen's pre-circulated paper, please take
one of the following steps depending on whether you plan to be at the
event in person or through Zoom:
* For in-person participants: please send a request by email directly to
ay...@ucsb.edu <mailto:ay...@ucsb.edu> (with a cc: to rrba...@ucsb.edu
<mailto:rrba...@ucsb.edu>).
* For Zoom participants: please register for the simultaneous, real-time
Zoom meeting. Once approved by the event organizers (there may be a
delay), you will receive an email with instructions for joining the Zoom
and also a passcode (look for the passcode at the bottom of the email).
The event organizers will also send you a copy of Alexandre Gefen's
pre-circulated paper.
Register for the Zoom meeting here:
https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAof-yoqD8oG9XPgX271yIdofI2c3wlOXvL
<https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAof-yoqD8oG9XPgX271yIdofI2c3wlOXvL>
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the source is
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the meaning of the place
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Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università del Piemonte Orientale
piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
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