Communicative AI

Mark Coeckelbergh

Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human cognition and philosophically question the very nature of language, communication, and intelligence. What is consciousness? What is language? Are LLMs authors? Are LLMs the end of writing as we know it? In this book, Mark Coeckelbergh and David J. Gunkel offer a critical introduction to LLMs, investigating the philosophical significance of this technology and its practical ramifications. Mobilizing resources from contemporary philosophy, history of ideas, linguistics, and communication theory, the book invites us to re-think some long-standing philosophical issues concerning language, consciousness, truth, authorship, and writing.

Author(s): Coeckelbergh, Mark
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 09/05/2025
Pagination: 140 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Polity Press
Published By: Polity Press
Book Classification: Philosophy
Dimensions: 208.3x134.6x15.2
Weight: 181.44
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781509567607