PoetKI – Literatur x Künstliche Intelligenz: Geschichte der Künstlichen Intelligenz

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Lecture by Michael Wildenhain

The idea of automatons, robots and artificial intelligence has long accompanied mankind. Novels such as Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" or E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Sandman" play prominently with the figure of the technological superhuman. In his opening lecture, Michael Wildenhain, author of "A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence" (2024), will shed light on the historical entanglement of literature and artificial intelligence. When did it all begin? And with what? How did literature fuel the dream of artificial intelligence? How did it process it? And how close does artificial intelligence really come to human intelligence? How can we tell its story? And, as a thesis-like outlook: What is AI doing to literature and the "literary system" as we know it?

In cooperation with Aventis
Curated by Jens Winter