BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news353@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260826T180847 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910 SUMMARY:Intellectual Furniture: A (Pre-)History of Large Language Models DESCRIPTION:With a retrospective look on the long media history of artifici al intelligence focussing on scholars/literary authors and their writing a ids\, we will sound out the differences as well as the similarities betwee n historical ways of interacting with »intelligent« devices (such as sli p boxes\, card catalogs\, filing systems and alike) and the strategies of current interactions with AI models. While taking a look at the foundation s of (electronic) computability as well as at varying constellations in wh ich an actor\, using specific rules and strategies\, enters into an intell ectual dialogue with a device in order to jointly arrive at new thoughts\, the workshop indulges in different genealogies of devices to think with\, surveying case studies\, scenarios\, histories and analytical accounts of intellectual furniture from the early modern period to the presence in or der to discuss different types of »large language models« before and wit hin the era of today’s AI models.\\r\\nHow can we conceive and describe the ways of interacting between author and the intellectual furniture as a dialogue partner while finding new constellations of knowledge? Which the oretical approaches prove to be most promising to analyze the (mechanical) intelligence built into the devices? What concepts of agency help to scru tinize the emergence of inspiration during the human-machine-interaction?\ \r\\nThe workshop brings together scholars and historians of note-taking a nd media devices with curators and art historians with an expertise in wri ting desks and intellectual furniture of all kind in order to carve out th e main lines and avenues of the precursors of today’s large language mod els.\\r\\nProgram [t3://file?uid=752]\\r\\nTo attend\, please registern vi a email by September 3: yannick.fritz@unibas.ch [mailto:yannick.fritz@unib as.ch]\\r\\nMore information: https://www.assisted-thinking.ch/posts/intel lectual-furniture [https://www.assisted-thinking.ch/posts/intellectual-fur niture/] X-ALT-DESC:

With a retrospective look on the long media history of artifi cial intelligence focussing on scholars/literary authors and their writing aids\, we will sound out the differences as well as the similarities betw een historical ways of interacting with »intelligent« devices (such as s lip boxes\, card catalogs\, filing systems and alike) and the strategies o f current interactions with AI models. While taking a look at the foundati ons of (electronic) computability as well as at varying constellations in which an actor\, using specific rules and strategies\, enters into an inte llectual dialogue with a device in order to jointly arrive at new thoughts \, the workshop indulges in different genealogies of devices to think with \, surveying case studies\, scenarios\, histories and analytical accounts of intellectual furniture from the early modern period to the presence in order to discuss different types of »large language models« before and w ithin the era of today’s AI models.

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How can we conceive and desc ribe the ways of interacting between author and the intellectual furniture as a dialogue partner while finding new constellations of knowledge? Whic h theoretical approaches prove to be most promising to analyze the (mechan ical) intelligence built into the devices? What concepts of agency help to scrutinize the emergence of inspiration during the human-machine-interact ion?

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The workshop brings together scholars and historians of note- taking and media devices with curators and art historians with an expertis e in writing desks and intellectual furniture of all kind in order to carv e out the main lines and avenues of the precursors of today’s large lang uage models.

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Program

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To at tend\, please registern via email by September 3: yannick.fritz@unibas.ch

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More information: https://www.assisted-thinking.ch/posts/intell ectual-furniture

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