The psychoanalysis of AI | Isabel Millar
151Isabel Millar delves into her work on the psychoanalysis of artificial intelligence.
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Questions over artificial intelligence seem to dominate our contemporary. But underpinning the technology are an array of presuppositions - about thinking, knowledge and consciousness - that are in dire need of philosophical scrutiny. In this fascinating interview, Dr Isabel Millar discusses her work in challenging these assumptions by deploying the tools of psychoanalysis to the study of AI.
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Dr Isabel Millar is a groundbreaking philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist, currently working at Newcastle University and the Global Centre for Advanced Study.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 What drew you to psychoanalysis?
02:19 The relationship
between AI and psychoanalysis
04:02 How should we understand intelligence?
05:22 Do you think we can establish one homogeneous idea
of what intelligence is?
06:42 If we can’t define intelligence
07:50 'Jouissance’ and AI
10:04 What are your thoughts on ChatGPT?
12:39 How effective is film in exploring philosophical matters?
14:27 What’s the next area you’re looking at?
16:35 Are the frameworks of psychoanalysis evolving
alongside modern technologies?
This interview took place at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye, in May 2023.
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