The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

Book Description

This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects. Drawing on Lacanian theory and recent clinical developments it explores what philosophy and critical theory of AI has hitherto neglected: enjoyment. Through the reconceptualization of Intelligence, the Artificial Object and the Sexual Abyss the book outlines the Sexbot as a figure who exists on the boundary of psychoanalysis and AI. Through this figure and the medium of film, the author subverts Kant’s three Enlightenment questions and guides readers to transition from asking ‘Does it think?’ to ‘Can it enjoy?’ The book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, film and media studies, critical theory, feminist theory and AI research.

中文：

书名：人工智能的精神分析

这本书考察了精神分析在理解人工智能作为说话的、性的对象对我们意味着什么方面的关键作用。借鉴拉康的理论和最近的临床发展，它探索了迄今为止人工智能的哲学和批评理论所忽视的东西：享受。通过对智能、人造物体和性深渊的重新概念化，该书概述了性爱机器人作为一个存在于精神分析和人工智能边界上的人物。通过这个人物和电影的媒介，作者颠覆了康德的三个启蒙问题，并引导读者从问它会思考吗？过渡到它能享受吗？这本书将特别吸引精神分析、哲学、电影和媒体研究、批评理论、女权主义理论和人工智能研究的学生和学者。