The House of Polly

This is the 4th and final part of my series of essays on “Interpolatable Archives”, a term I’ve been throwing around for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence. Part 1: The Skeleton Library - Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital OralitiesPart 2: Explosion Drawings - Science Sans Discoveries, Textrotating Cognitive Catalysts and Exploding Your Intelligence by the Method of WarburgPart 3: Pitfalls of Probability - Accelerations, Anachronisms, Wishfulfillments, Severances and HomogenizationsPart 4: The House of Polly - Useless Bullshit, Meaning Of The Poetic Kind, Sloptimizations, Thinking In Vacuums, Remainder Criticisms and Games of ChessSubscribe now“These are the Talking Rings?””Yes.””They speak, hm? Of what?””Things no one here understands.””Make them talk.”(The Time Machine, 1960)What I tried to achieve in this series of essays is to look at the chances and risks of AI as a cultural…