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Language Machines
Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism Volume 74
Taschenbuch von Leif Weatherby
Sprache: Englisch

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How generative AI systems capture a core function of language

Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture. This evolution in language, he finds, is one that we are ill-prepared to evaluate, as what he terms “remainder humanism” counterproductively divides the human from the machine without drawing on established theories of representation that include both.

To determine the consequences of using AI for language generation, Weatherby reads linguistic theory in conjunction with the algorithmic architecture of LLMs. He finds that generative AI captures the ways in which language is at first complex, cultural, and poetic, and only later referential, functional, and cognitive. This process is the semiotic hinge on which an emergent AI culture depends. Weatherby calls for a “general poetics” of computational cultural forms under the formal conditions of the algorithmic reproducibility of language.

Locating the output of LLMs on a spectrum from poetry to ideology, Language Machines concludes that literary theory must be the backbone of a new rhetorical training for our linguistic-computational culture.

How generative AI systems capture a core function of language

Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture. This evolution in language, he finds, is one that we are ill-prepared to evaluate, as what he terms “remainder humanism” counterproductively divides the human from the machine without drawing on established theories of representation that include both.

To determine the consequences of using AI for language generation, Weatherby reads linguistic theory in conjunction with the algorithmic architecture of LLMs. He finds that generative AI captures the ways in which language is at first complex, cultural, and poetic, and only later referential, functional, and cognitive. This process is the semiotic hinge on which an emergent AI culture depends. Weatherby calls for a “general poetics” of computational cultural forms under the formal conditions of the algorithmic reproducibility of language.

Locating the output of LLMs on a spectrum from poetry to ideology, Language Machines concludes that literary theory must be the backbone of a new rhetorical training for our linguistic-computational culture.

Über den Autor

Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German and founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. He is author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: AI between Cognition and Culture

1. How the Humanities Lost Language: Syntax, Statistics, and Structure

2. The Eliza Effect Goes Global: Intelligence as Simulacrum

3. The Semiological Surround, or How Language Is the Medium of Computation

4. Large Literary Machines

5. Computational Meaning: For a General Poetics

6. Poetic Ideology: The Packaged Semantics of Generative Culture

Conclusion: Language as a Service, or the Return of Rhetoric

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781517919320
ISBN-10: 1517919320
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Weatherby, Leif
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Leif Weatherby
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,408 kg
Artikel-ID: 133436837
Über den Autor

Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German and founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. He is author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: AI between Cognition and Culture

1. How the Humanities Lost Language: Syntax, Statistics, and Structure

2. The Eliza Effect Goes Global: Intelligence as Simulacrum

3. The Semiological Surround, or How Language Is the Medium of Computation

4. Large Literary Machines

5. Computational Meaning: For a General Poetics

6. Poetic Ideology: The Packaged Semantics of Generative Culture

Conclusion: Language as a Service, or the Return of Rhetoric

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781517919320
ISBN-10: 1517919320
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Weatherby, Leif
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Leif Weatherby
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,408 kg
Artikel-ID: 133436837
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