Borges and Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard by Lapidot, Ema

Borges and Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820413761)

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Borges and Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard by Lapidot, Ema

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

$53.95
Borges and Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard by Lapidot, Ema

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

$53.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ema Lapidot
ISBN-10: 0820413763
ISBN-13: 9780820413761
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1991
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover
By Ema Lapidot
By Ema Lapidot
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The Author: Ema Lapidot is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Russell Sage College, in Troy, New York. She researches Borges' writings from the vantage point of modern sciences and technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and cybernetics. She has also studied the thematic commonality between Borges and the Dutch graphic artist Escher. She received her Ph.D. from State University of New York at Albany. A Spanish edition of Borges and Artificial Intelligence is being published concurrently in Madrid, Spain.

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