Artificial intelligence: George Eliot, Ernst Kapp, and the projections of character
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...
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Open Library of Humanities
2020
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