ChatGPT is the language of the unconscious | Alenka Zupančič
196Alenka Zupančič discusses psychoanalysis in the internet and AI age.
Is ChatGPT closing down our emancipatory potential? Or can we still defend it?
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"The unconscious is structured like a language,” argued psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. And now, with the rise of AI, Lacan's thinking has taken an unexpected twist. Large language models can produce the impression of a human speaking. Might AI therefore capture something key about the human unconscious? Join leading Lacanian philosopher and collaborator of Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, as she argues that AI shows the unconscious is structured like a large language model.
#psychoanalysis #unconsciousness #lacan #chatgpt
Alenka Zupančič is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor at The European Graduate School and at the University of Nova Gorica.
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00:00 Introduction
00:40 ChatGPT
05:02 Have we uploaded the unconscious?
08:00 Reasoning AI
11:00 AI and MAGA style
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