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When GPT Digested the Medium Hélène Smith (2024)

Katerina Undo

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Exploring synergies between the study of the medium Hélène Smith at the turn of the 20th century and contemporary notions of subjectivity, artificiality and intelligence in the age of AI, the question of locating intelligence will not be a question with a binary answer in this paper. It will be shifted to multiple sites in an assimilative assemblage, exploring how identification might work from a rather metabolic side of the conversation. Weaving a thinking continuum on the evolving human-machine complexes beyond circular debates, Hélène Smith's ambiguous Martian writings are fed into GPT; an act intended as a metaphor and method for overcoming our binary contradiction of intelligence as either “natural” or “artificial”, ultimately generating new subjectivities, fluid variables or even contradictory insights. In this context, a meditation with speculative moments is attempted through human-machine inter-written texts, enacted through inter-twined speeches that reciprocally represent and interpret their own transitive nature.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsartificial intelligence, language, transition, Hélène Smith, ChatGPT, GPT2
date01/05/2024
published12/12/2024
last modified12/12/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightKaterina Undo
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2678388/2678343
published inHUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue3. HUB Issue #3 / Autumn 2024 / Metabolic Media


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