Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 316. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2021-10-22 08:27:51+00:00 From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> Subject: psychoanalysis continued My thanks to Henry and Hartmut for better informed responses to my question on "psychoanalysis of a digital unconscious". More of that kind would be very welcome. But let me change the question slightly. Let's imagine an updated version of Weizenbaum's ELIZA in its psychoanalytic application combined with something like an expert system (remember those?) covering the subject area of the human interlocutor's field of interest. And since we're imagining all this, let's assume whatever computational power might be required. Let's say we have a artificial doctor that learns dynamically from conversation with the human, then responds by rephrasing the conversation, producing examples --or writing up a summary conclusion. So far, I take it, systems have been designed to mimic, based on their training sets. Is it conceivable given what we know now that such a GPT3-like system could be designed not to mimic based on learned biases but to deviate or extend 'beyond the information given' so as to illuminate these biases? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php