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Artificial intelligence: George Eliot, Ernst Kapp, and the projections of character
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This article focuses on one of Eliot’s last and strangest pieces of writing: ‘Shadows of the Coming Race’ (the penultimate chapter of Impressions of Theophrastus Such). It argues that ‘Shadows’ was strikingly prescient — less in its imagining of future machine intelligence than in its prediction of how the cultural debate has developed around AI and AI’s consequences for humanity. By reading ‘Shadows’ alongside a near contemporary work, Ernst Kapp’s Elements of a Philosophy of Technology (187...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.16995/ntn.1993
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Open Library of Humanities Publisher's website
- Journal:
- 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Journal website
- Volume:
- 29
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-02-07
- DOI:
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1755-1560
- ISSN:
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1755-1560
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- English
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1086321
- Local pid:
- pubs:1086321
- Deposit date:
- 2020-02-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Helen Small
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author 2020. This article is Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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