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Competing Visions for AI: Turing, Licklider and Generative Literature

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dc.creatorSchwartz, Oscar
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T10:07:24Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T10:07:24Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I will investigate how two competing visions of machine intelligence put forward by Alan Turing and J. C. R Licklider – one that emphasized automation and another that emphasized augmentation – have informed experiments in computational creativity, from early attempts at computer-generated art and poetry in the 1960s, up to recent experiments that utilise Machine Learning to generate paintings and music. I argue that while our technological capacities have changed, the foundational conflict between Turing’s vision and Licklider’s vision plays itself out in generations of programmers and artists who explore the computer’s creative potential. Moreover, I will demonstrate that this conflict does not only inform technical/artistic practice, but speaks to a deeper philosophical and ideological divide concerning the narrative of a post-human future. While Turing’s conception of human-equivalent AI informs a transhumanist imaginary of super-intelligent, conscious, anthropomorphic machines, Licklider’s vision of symbiosis underpins formulations of the cyborg as human-machine hybrid, aligning more closely with a critical post-human imaginary in which boundaries between the human and technological become mutable and up for re-negotiation. In this article, I will explore how one of the functions of computational creativity is to highlight, emphasise and sometimes thematise these conflicting post-human imaginaries.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13527
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0107.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14453
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen
dc.subjectAIen
dc.subjectautomationen
dc.subjectcollaborationen
dc.subjectHuman-Machine Interactionen
dc.subjecthybridityen
dc.subjectposthumanismen
dc.subjectTranshumanismen
dc.subjectKünstliche Intelligenzde
dc.subjectKIde
dc.subjectAutomatisierungde
dc.subjectKollaborationde
dc.subjectZusammenarbeitde
dc.subjectMensch-Maschine-Interaktionde
dc.subjectHybriditätde
dc.subjectPosthumanismusde
dc.subjectTranshumanismusde
dc.subject.ddcddc:003
dc.subject.ddcddc:006
dc.subject.personAlan Turing
dc.subject.personJoseph C. R. Licklider
dc.subject.personRay Kurzweil
dc.subject.personCharles Hartman
dc.titleCompeting Visions for AI: Turing, Licklider and Generative Literatureen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:32:34
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0107.pdf
local.source.epage105
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleRethinking AI
local.source.spage87
local.source.volume4
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