chi si iscrive all'evento riceve il link al paper di Gefen "AI: a Deep History" che si apre con questo abstract: Artificial Intelligence must be considered as a total cultural question and not only as a technological advance. This is a project of the CulturIA team funded by the French National Research Agency that I launched in January. In this presentation, I will show that it is particularly necessary to make the long history of AI, exploring both the complex advance of science and the myths and fictions of AI, which go back to the most remote antiquity. sono prospettive che sono circolate spesso qui in lista nel dibattito sui sistemi di IA la prospettiva francese potrebbe portare spunti nuovi ad una riflessone che vede dominante il contesto culturale anglofono/angloamericano. Maurizio ---------------------------------------------------------- "GENERATIVE AI" Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 3:30-5:00 (U.S. Pacific time) Transcriptions Center (South Hall 2509), or attend through Zoom Open to all EVENT DESCRIPTION At this hybrid in-person and virtual event (open to all) on "Generative AI," Alexandre Gefen will be present in person to discuss his pre-circulated paper on "AI: a Deep History," followed by responses by Professors Fabian Offert (Germanic & Slavic Studies, UC Santa Barbara) and Rita Raley (English, UC Santa Barbara). Alexandre Gefen – Director of Research at the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) Theory and History of Modern Art and Literature Unit UMR7172, THALIM, CNRS / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3) – is a historian of ideas and literature. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on culture, contemporary literature and literary theory. Founder of Fabula.org, he was one of the pioneers of Digital Humanities in France. He discovered the uses of AI for research (word vectors, topic modeling) at the Stanford Literary Lab as part of the project "For an empirical history of literature", Transatlantic program for collaborative work in the field of digital humanities, which he co-sponsored with Franco Moretti (FMSH Paris-Fellon Foundation). Following on his directorship of a research program devoted to the fictions of Artificial Intelligence (ia-fictions.net), he is now the principal investigator of the ANR project "CulturIA, for a cultural history of AI". The event is organized by the Comparative Literature Program and the English Department's Transcriptions Center at UC Santa Barbara. It is open to all, and can be attended in person or through Zoom (see below). PRE-CIRCULATED PAPER "AI: a Deep History" – By Alexandre Gefen (pre-circulated by request or through event registration; see below) Abstract: Artificial Intelligence must be considered as a total cultural question and not only as a technological advance. This is a project of the CulturIA team funded by the French National Research Agency that I launched in January. In this presentation, I will show that it is particularly necessary to address the long history of AI, exploring both the complex advance of science and the myths and fictions of AI, which go back to the most remote antiquity. Respondents: Fabian Offert and Rita Raley (https://zentralwerkstatt.org/, http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/) EVENT LOCATION (& SIMULTANEOUS ZOOM MEETING) The Generative AI event will take place in the Transcriptions Center, South Hall 2509, on Tuesday Feb. 1, 2022, with Alexandre physically present. In awareness that on that date the UCSB campus will be transitioning back from remote activities to in-person instruction and other events, we also welcome participation by campus and worldwide participants through a simultaneous, real-time Zoom meeting (advance registration required). The audience may thus choose to attend in person or online. To receive a copy of Alexandre Gefen's pre-circulated paper, please take one of the following steps depending on whether you plan to be at the event in person or through Zoom: * For in-person participants: please send a request by email directly to ayliu@ucsb.edu <mailto:ayliu@ucsb.edu> (with a cc: to rrbaker@ucsb.edu <mailto:rrbaker@ucsb.edu>). * For Zoom participants: please register for the simultaneous, real-time Zoom meeting. Once approved by the event organizers (there may be a delay), you will receive an email with instructions for joining the Zoom and also a passcode (look for the passcode at the bottom of the email). 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