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  • â„đïļIntroduction
  • 📖Definitions of AI
    • ðŸĶĢAI myths
    • 📃Critique of AI concept
    • 🔌AI as general purpose technology
    • ðŸĪ–Anthropomorphism
    • ⚙ïļAutomation bias
  • 📚The historical entanglements of AI and semiotics
  • 🌏Technology and society
    • ðŸĪ–The history of AI
    • 🛕Ancient automata
    • 📚Public understanding of science and technology
    • 🊖Technology and the military
  • 🗃ïļContemporary AI: Case studies
    • ðŸŽĨCase study: Superheroes, cyborgs, and artificial creatures in science fiction narratives
    • ðŸ’ŧCase study: problems with generative technologies
    • ðŸ§ēCase study: generative AI and copyright
    • ðŸĪ–Case study: mistaking CGI for miltech
    • 🙋Case study: renegotiating the social contract
  • 🌐Computer systems as social and semiotic technologies
  • 📝Exercises
    • ðŸ—ĢïļHeadline rephrasing
    • ðŸĪ–Anthropomorphism awareness
  • 📑References
  • ðŸŠķAbout this project
    • New Media and Technosemiotics modules@UPOL
    • HUGOD project
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The historical entanglements of AI and semiotics

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Semiotic models and theories have been implicitly coded within the AI field since the very beginning. Explicit calls for a semiotic theory of computers are more recent. Computer systems can be considered as inherently semiotic due to their function as extensions of human symbolic communication and signification. At the same time, computer systems remain assemblages of interactivity led by semiotic agents (humans). This section will focus on the vocabulary and implications of such entanglements and outline the semiotic parts in these supersystems.

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