A book event with Leif Weatherby, Mike Lipkin and Anna Kornbluh
Join us this Friday, December 12th at the Seminary Co-op for a discussion of Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism, written by NYU German professor and Point contributor Leif Weatherby.
In this ambitious new work of theory, Leif argues for a revival of structuralist theories of language as the key way to understand how today’s large language models function—and one which humanistic scholarship of recent years has been singularly ill-prepared to grasp. To do so, he argues, will allow us to understand what makes generative AI creative, if not intelligent, as well as the basic confusions over what AI is held by its critics as well as its proponents.
Leif will be joined in conversation by Mike Lipkin, academic director of the Program for Public Thinking, and UIC English professor Anna Kornbluh. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.
Language Machines
Friday, December 12, 4 p.m - 5 p.m.
Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
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