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ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines - Journal #137

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Yuk Hui proposes a radically different approach to AI.

e - flux Journal Subscribe ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines Yuk Hui The Turing Machine at Bletchley Park. Douglas Hoyt/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Issue # 137 June 2023 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Notes 1 “This occidental conception of history, implying an irreversible direction toward a future goal, is not merely occidental. It is essentially a Hebrew and Christian assumption that history is directed toward an ultimate purpose and governed by the providence of a supreme insight and will—in Hegel’s terms, by spirit or reason as ‘the absolutely powerful essence.’” Karl Löwith, Meaning in History (

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