Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

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Artificial Humanities explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in parallel with actual technological developments, Nina Beguš presents a novel interdisciplinary framework for understanding the cultural, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of AI. She traces connections from Eliza Doolittle to ELIZA the chatbot and current language models, incorporates Slavic fictional examples from the Pygmalion paradigm, and compares mid-century science fiction and recent Hollywood films with contemporary developments in social robotics and virtual beings. Highlighting the impact of human-like AI design, from gendered virtual assistants to romanticized social robots, the book shows how these technologies intersect with longstanding humanistic questions about the concepts of creativity and language as well as the relations between humans and machines. Additionally, the book explores AI’s applications in medical fields, particularly psychiatry and neurotechnology, including how AI interacts with the human body and mind to address conditions like paralysis. By emphasizing the philosophical and cultural implications of these technologies, Beguš highlights the need for responsible innovation that prioritizes human well-being as well as machine potential outside of human imitation. Accessible and thought-provoking, Artificial Humanities offers tools for analyzing and assessing technologies while they are being developed and invites readers to see how the humanities can guide us toward a more thoughtful future for AI.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction: The Pygmalion Myth in Technology What is artificial humanities? When Machine Speaks The History of the Pygmalion Myth When Galatea Speaks Overview of the Book Chapter 1: Inventing New Elizas 1.1 Shaw’s Heritage 1.2 The Turing Test 1.3 The Eliza Effect 1.4 Relationality 1.5 Becoming Human 1.6 Language-Centeredness in AI 1.7 Machine Speech Training 1.8 Artificial Humanities: Language Enhancement Chapter 2: Illusions of Social Robotics 2.1 Social Robots: Hanson’s Sophia 2.2 Pygmalion’s Perspective 2.2.2 Periphery: Šeligo 2.3 Both Sides Now: Neškovic 2.3 Galatea’s Perspective 2.3.1 Speak, Galatea: Feminist Authors 2.4 Nonhuman Perception: Lem 2.5 Artificial Humanities: In Search of the Nonhuman 2.5.1 Linguistic Execution: Jonze 2.5.2 Visual Execution: Garland Chapter 3: Pygmalionism and Paralysis in Medical Ethics 3.1 Pygmalionism in the Medical and Legal Literature 3.1.1 Literary References 3.1.2 Sexology 3.1.3 Law 3.1.4 Psychology 3.2 Modern Pygmalions 3.2.1 Virtual Beings 3.2.2 Pygmalionesque Psychotherapy: Gillespie 3.3 Galatean Paralysis 3.3.1 Moore 3.3.2 Sheldon 3.4 Literature and Medical Ethics 3.4.1 Locked-in: Vigand and Bauby 3.4.2 Asimov and Technology Ethics 3.5 Artificial Humanities: Building Ethically Chapter 4: Language in Humans, Hybrids, and Machines 4.1 Humans: A Conceptual History of Language 4.1.1 A Commentary on Human Exclusivity in Language 4.2 Hybrids: Shelley 4.3 Machines: Powers 4.4 Artificial Humanities: Changing Concepts Chapter 5: Machine Writing 5.1 Large Language Models 5.1.1 Structure is All You Need 5.2 Literary Market: Dahl 5.3 Literary Criticism: Tomažin 5.4 Writing Literature: Kehlmann and Allado-McDowell 5.5 Artificial Humanities: Centering Fiction Conclusion: A Program for Artificial Humanities 6.1 AI Tropes 6.2 What Artificial Humanities Offers to STEM 6.3 The Role of Literary Studies Bibliography Primary Secondary


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  • ISBN-13: 9780472077731
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 308
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0472077732
  • Publisher Date: 25 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI


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