Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism Volume 74

by Leif Weatherby

How generative AI systems capture a core function of language

Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517919320
• ISBN13: 9781517919320
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"