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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 423–428.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Fabian Offert offert@ucsb.edu “Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks.” By Christian Szegedy , Wojciech Zaremba , Ilya Sutskever , Joan Bruna , Dumitru Erhan , Ian Goodfellow , and Rob Fergus . arXiv preprint. 2013 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 435–438.
Published: 01 June 2023
... games, which depend on character-based scripting and pathfinding algorithms, are more basic than the supervised and unsupervised learning of later neural networks. Historically, developers have often spent more resources on graphics than AI systems in order to appeal to consumers through visual delights...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-3 . Branwen Gwern . 2022b . “ The Scaling Hypothesis .” Gwern.net , January 2 . https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis . Branwen Gwern , and Presser Shawn . 2019 . “ GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry .” Gwern.net , October 29 . https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to the hacker’s body even as they enter into the disembodied matrix. To “jack in” involves plugging the cyberspace deck into a neural interface; it establishes a physical connection between the plug of the deck (an early model computer) and the “jack” of the hacker’s neural interface (Gibson 1987 : 17). All...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 379–407.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Lentz, the Frankensteinian creator of a neu-
ral net, to train a supercomputer in the field of literary studies to the
point that it can outperform a student on a master’s exam.
Another similarity between Roger’s Version and Galatea 2.2 is the
emphasis on teaching. Richard learns about neural nets...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 715–745.
Published: 01 December 2002
... model of image transmission.
New ideas about the apprehension of reality—such as the indexical
reception of reality-impressions in neural tissue or the furrowing of
memory pathways in brain circuits—dislodged the image of the cool,
untouched, representing consciousness. And ultimately the model...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and preconditions of ML, particularly the history of neural networks and the intertwined histories of AI, cybernetics, probability, computer science, computer graphics, computer vision, cognitive science, modeling, and gaming. Just as with prior critical engagements with biotechnology (da Costa and Philip 2008...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
... but they are produced through algorithmic processes that have little or no understanding or knowledge about the world that humans inhabit. With the development of neural nets, the process of creating resemblances has reached new levels of similitude, with commentators again warning about rippling social, economic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
Published: 01 June 2012
... lesson, the brains of individuals with Capgras-type neural
damage continue their primary task of ensuring consistency despite
contradictory input from the outside world. Capgras is an irresist-
ible case for Weber because the brain insists on self-familiarity in the
absence...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in the
early modern period yielded an expansion of available calories for
human consumption, which allowed for an increase in the density of
human settlements. This density in turn spurred the development of
leisure activities and the neural stimulation they provide. Together,
these changes created...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... a vision of designing a computer system they called the Dynamic Modeling System, dedicated to building scientific models across a range of fields and equipped with ready-to-use data sets and modeling tools (110). Early group members anticipated using it to model phenomena from neural activity to urban...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-Richer locates an abiding concern with managing uncertainty in neural models and Cold War cybernetics; this, he claims, paved the way for a wider “adversarial epistemology” that recasts failure as an “opportunity” to improve models (218). In contrast, Ceyda Yolgörmez draws from Alan Turing and George...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... to be accountable for the results of their use, and for the most harmful outputs to be regulated are insufficient (5). “One could imagine a world,” she writes, in which the deep neural networks used in cities like Baltimore are scrutinized and rendered compliant with rules and yet continue to learn to recognize...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 June 2023
... by Duke University Press 2023 The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) have become a matter of public concern. According to a recent Stanford report, the number of research papers in the area given at major conferences such as the annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems has...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 397–413.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of a human in pain crashes their neural networks and can cause death. Ashby thus goes even further than Isaac Asimov’s famous laws of robotics (designed to ensure robots cannot harm humans), requiring vNs to love their human masters, a psychological orientation she presents as analogous to emotional...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... ,” the neural programs whose inflexibility, within the novel’s logic, evokes primitiveness. The white(y)ness that is the name of Snow Crash’ s narrative universe is thus always already a misprized and supplementary derivation of the blackness that the narrative attempts but fails to subordinate by constraining...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., big data, and computation at large as about deep learning, neural networks, or advanced inference techniques normally associated with the term AI . Roughly, these books help us visualize the AI scene today; one can draw concentric circles, and AI will be the innermost: a tiny subset of soft...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
... primarily involves more primitive neural structures (the amygdala
and brain stem) as well as dispersed disruptions throughout the body
(in the visceral, musculoskeletal, and circulatory systems). The map-
ping of these disruptions back into consciousness once again...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 410–411.
Published: 01 June 2002
... more vivid pic-
tures than can any other art form or one’s daydreaming imagination. Verbal
arts achieve this intensity in two ways. First, they mime the neural processes
by which brains actually register the real, solid, material world; second, they
convey specific instructions to readers about how...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2002
... ways. First, they mime the neural processes
by which brains actually register the real, solid, material world; second, they
convey specific instructions to readers about how to perceive. In Scarry’s
words, the verbal arts come closer than other forms to producing ‘‘mental ac-
tions...
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