Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory

Autor:	Tobias Rees
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	History and Philosophy of Science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Political Science and International Relations Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Zdroj:	Daedalus. 151:168-182
ISSN:	1548-6192 0011-5266
DOI:	10.1162/daed_a_01908
Popis:	In this essay, I investigate the effect of OpenAI's GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human (as alone capable of reason and language) and of machines (as devoid of reason and language). I show how GPT-3 and other transformer-based language models give rise to a new, structuralist concept of language, implicit in which is a new understanding of human and machine that unfolds far beyond the reach of the categories we have inherited from the past. I try to make compelling the argument that AI companies like OpenAI, Google, Facebook, or Microsoft effectively are philosophical laboratories (insofar as they disrupt the old concepts/ontologies we live by) and I ask what it would mean to build AI products from the perspective of the philosophical disruptions they provoke: can we liberate AI from the concept of the human we inherited from the past?
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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