Communicative AI: A Critical Guide to Large Language Models, Language, and Meaning
What if a machine that “only predicts the next word” could force us to rethink consciousness, authorship, and what counts as truth? That’s the riddle at the heart of Communicative AI—the fast-growing field centered on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and LaMDA. These systems are unbelievably useful and deeply controversial. They write essays and…