Martin Warnke
Martin Warnke studied in Berlin and Hamburg, received his doctorate in theoretical physics in Hamburg in 1984, began working at the University of Lüneburg, was head of the computer and media centre for many years, habilitated in computer science/digital media at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in 2008 and has been a professor at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, of which he was the founding director, at the Faculty of Cultural Studies since 2010 and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Basel, Klagenfurt and Vienna.
He works in the field of the history and theory of digital media and the digital documentation of complex artefacts of the visual arts. He is director of the DFG Institute for Advanced Study "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (mecs). He founded the "HyperKult" workshop series, was spokesman for the "Computer Science and Society" section of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. and is chairman of the Springhornhof art association.
Martin wasSenior Fellow at ifk in Vienna: https://www.ifk.ac.at/fellows-detail/martin-warnke-2.html
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The history of Large Language Models does not rest on neurophysiology but on linguistics: LLM are grammars that produce meaning, not artificial brains. This allows to interpret effects like the notorious hallucinations and frees us from "artificial intelligence". There is even an earlier methodology: the cabalistic text interpretations from the middle ages, sharing quite a lot of characteristics.