Boris Buden, “Can it laugh? Surviving with AI”
AI is an agency supposedly able to think. But can it laugh? When asked directly, the AI answers: “If making a joke means ‘producing a text that causes a human to laugh,’ then yes. If it means ‘having a sense of humor or understanding why something is funny,’ the answer is currently no.” How to understand it, as a sign of hope, or rather of hopelessness?
Boris Buden is a writer, cultural theorist, and translator based in Berlin.
Born in former Yugoslavia, he studied philosophy in Zagreb and received his PhD in cultural theory from Humboldt University in Berlin. Since the beginning of the 1980s, Buden has published essays and books on critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, politics, and contemporary art in Croatian, German, and English.
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