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Ethan Plaue Read Bio Collapse
Ethan Plaue Read Bio Collapse
Ethan Plaue is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches race, property, and mediation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
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e-flux journal issue 123
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 15, 2021
Category
Technology, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Artificial intelligence, Algorithms
Institution
# 123
Secrets and Machines: A Conversation with GPT-3
Ethan Plaue, William Morgan, and GPT-3
In line with its showboating tendencies, the AI claims that its secrets are the very secrets of the universe, and that these secrets are still hidden. In other words, even if the AI has “seen it all, heard it all, recorded it all, stored it all, used it all, analyzed it all,” it still cannot understand any of it. Thus, what is revealed is the rather mundane secret that interpretation is required. But how should one interpret the fact that the AI lets the preferred methods of the humanities back into the game?
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 15, 2021
Category
Technology, Surveillance & Privacy, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
11 Essays
Compiled byKanad Chakrabarti
With:
Boris Groys, Lorenza Pignatti, Arseny Zhilyaev, Anton Vidokle, Hito Steyerl, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Ethan Plaue, William Morgan, GPT-3, Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Alberro, Oleksiy Radynski, Alex Williams, Yuk Hui
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