"Language is, by definition, a system of communication, and it requires an intention to communicate." - Ted Chiang The New Yorker Need to fact-check this statement against the last century of innovations in philosophy of language and communication theory. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

With all this talk about #LLMs, #genAI and #communication, maybe someone should write a book about it...DONE. routledge.com/AI-for-Communi… Routledge Books

The "limited choice" argument worries me. Was not something like this also asserted about hip hop DJ's and #remix artists, who were dismissed as not being "real musicians" because they did nothing more than "simply playing records."

Wow! 50% off the paperback of ‘Artificial Life After Frankenstein’ if you buy direct from Penn Press this holiday weekend! (Basically $12 a copy)

Ted Chiang is smart, but that essay is not good… Choice, expression, communication, intention — all interesting, but the sine qua non of art? Questionable…

#AI for #communication Now available for pre-order. Routledge Books Taylor&Francis News amazon.com/AI-Communicati…

Ted Chiang The New Yorker "Art is something that results from making a lot of choices." Marcel Duchamp: "Hold my ready-made." Mark Amerika remixthebook Mat Dryhurst

Ted Chiang The New Yorker: "Language is, by definition, a system of communication, and it requires an intention to communicate." Roland Barthes: "Death of the Author" (1967).

If you are a communication researcher/teacher and have the suspicion that this #AI stuff might be important in your future, we have the book for you. "#AI for #communication" Routledge Books is a quick and efficient intro designed to get you up to speed. doi.org/10.1201/978100…

"Rights for Intelligent Robots? A Philosophical Inquiry into Machine Moral Status" - New book from Kęstutis Mosakas and published by Palgrave Macmillan I had the opportunity to read the manuscript, and it's brilliant. Highly recommended for anyone interested in #AI/#robot moral status.

My new favorite piece of dada art at Berlinische Galerie: "'Daum' Marries her Pedantic Automaton 'George' in May 1920, John Heartfield is very Glad of it (Meta-Mech. Construction nach Prof. R. Hausmann)" - George Grosz, 1920. With thanks to Anna Strasser DenkWerkstatt Berlin for the bicycle tour of the city.

Photos from the "LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use" workshop held 29-30 August 2024 at Weizenbaum-Institut and organized by Anna Strasser DenkWerkstatt Berlin. Important and timely event along with a good opportunity to rendezvous with Joanna J Bryson, who I have not seen in person since the pandemic.

Found what has got to be the perfect image for my Big Dada project gunkelweb.com/BigDada in the dada exhibit at Berlinische Galerie: "Synthetischer Musiker" (Iwan Puni 1921)

My article "What Is This Thing Called the Ethics of AI and What Calls for It?", from David J. Gunkel's (ed.) Handbook on the Ethics of AI Elgar Publishing, is available in open access here: elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… #aiethics

One of the problems of using a property like "consciousness" to decide the moral status of others (animal, plant, #AI) is detection. So I built a Moral Status Meter to help us resolve this matter. For more on this, see "Person, Thing, Robot" The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bit.ly/Gunkel-PTR

A machine for detecting and measuring the presence or absence of the qualifying property of sentience in others. This is no way to do #ethics...ergo the RELATION TURN. See "Person, Thing, Robot" The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bit.ly/Gunkel-PTR

NEW CFP - Special Issue of "Philosophical Studies" Springer Philosophy on "Superintelligent #Robots." Edited by John-Stewart Gordon and David J. Gunkel. We are interested in original research addressing all aspects and angles. Deadline is 31 March 2025. link.springer.com/collections/jh…

#AI for #communication - Routledge Books ships on 30 September 2024. In just 130 pages and a bunch of pictures this one will get you up to speed in no time. Review blubs from Eve Poole Chad Edwards Zizi Papacharissi @[email protected] #resist and Stina Bengtsson routledge.com/AI-for-Communi…

Available Open Access and for immediate download by way of the D2O (direct to open) initiative at The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bit.ly/Gunkel-PTR

BIG DADA Three new songs available at the Big Dada project (#GenAI music about #GenAI). This time we take it international with a Norteño polka, a Kraut Rock dirge, and Parisian folk song. And while you listen, read the Manifesto! gunkelweb.com/BigDada/