Generative artificial intelligence and new semiotic challenges

Discover the first session of the International Semiotics Seminar in Paris "Generative artificial intelligence and new semiotic challenges. Translation and creative appropriations".

This year, we'll be focusing our attention on a specific theme among those already addressed, namely the one most closely linked to computational language models and translation problems (between human prompts and machine-revised prompts, between natural language prompts and textual descriptions of images): generative artificial intelligence.

We will thus continue our reflections on the multiple enunciative instances involved in these intelligences, namely: the databases used to learn generative models, the algorithms used to train and infer these models, the numerical representations called “embeddings” that they create by translating visual or verbal texts into lists of numbers, the actual codes that articulate everything in a specific programming language, and finally the “prompts”, which are the queries that serve as the models' entry point for the user. This will enable us to focus more attention on the many translations between different syntagmatic substances of expression, and on the much-discussed question of creativity.

• Maria Giulia Dondero : Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS/ULiège
  On some problems of composition and style in generative artificial intelligence models
• Juan Alonso Aldama : Université Paris Cité
  Semiotic questions on strategy and foresight in AI