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Borges and Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard

Borges and Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard

Lapidot, Ema

Hardcover

Series: American University Studies, Book 11

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 0820413763
ISBN13: 9780820413761
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Mar 1 1991
Pages: 197
Language: English
This book analyzes the tight weave between literature and science found in Borges' writings. Of the many aspects of scientific thought found in Borges' work, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one even though the author was not aware of the existence of this technology. Borges discusses explicitly the mechanization of thoughts in some of his essays. Drawing on Borges' idea that it is the reader, and not the writer, who sets the meaning on a text, a contemporary reader finds that many concepts of AI technology are implicit in his short stories, ideas such as hardware , software , memory , program and programmer , data , and so on. His essential skepticism echoes the skeptics of present-day AI scientists.

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