The Shepherds of Electric Sheep: Generative AI and Creativity

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

We may locate important artificial intelligence (AI)-related issues within fundamental concepts concerning the symbolic structures of semantic meaning, tracing the evolution of modern philosophy, mathematics, and logic to the invention of the programmable digital computer-the Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC)-in the 1940s. The chapter formally researches and attempts to theorize the historical and cultural experiments in AI, beginning with Strachey’s fascinating computational “literary” compositions using the “ABC” (1952). The recent generation of AI tools has not only prompted more creative experiments in computational thinking but an increasingly anxious need for new literary, aesthetic-based insights into the very concept of sentience itself, in terms of both organic and inorganic entities.

Identifier

85195736523 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781040038000, 9781032341668]

Publication Title

Literature and Computation: Platform Intermediality, Hermeneutic Modeling, and Analytical-Creative Approaches

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003320838-12

First Page

234

Last Page

256

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