Allure, with Luke Munn

Luke Munn and I discuss the allure of ChatGPT technology. ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. For me, one of the great insights from our conversation is that media scholars should pay attention to the meaning-making that happens culturally, even as technologies and their underlying logics are being/have been debunked. Recorded Dec 7, 2022.Munn, Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm (2018)https://meson.press/books/ferocious-logics/Munn, Logic of Feeling: Technology's Quest to Capitalize Emotion (2020)https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538148358/Logic-of-Feeling-Technology%27s-Quest-to-Capitalize-EmotionMunn, Automation is a Myth (2022)https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34899&bottom_ref=subjectMagee, Arora, and Munn, "Structured Like a Language Model: Analysing AI as an Automated Subject" (preprint)https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05058Munn, "The Uselessness of AI Ethics" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-022-00209-w Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.