Prof. Dr. Christian Kirchmeier (University of Bremen): “Preliminary considerations for a promptology”

• 14.05.2025
• 16:15 Clock
• Linzer Str. 4 • Room 60.070

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Prof. Dr. Christian Kirchmeier can be found here.

In recent years, the term “promptology” has become established as a term for the study of writing efficient AI instructions. However, the fact that we can now control technical systems using natural language has often gone unnoticed. This is where the lecture comes in. It examines the linguistic, epistemic and cultural implications of large language models such as ChatGPT along the four areas of “rhetoric”, “communication”, “knowledge” and “affordances”. The focus is on the question of the extent to which generative AI changes the relationship between humans and machines and which continuities and breaks it marks in the history of media culture.

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Christian Kirchmeier studied German language and literature, history and philosophy at LMU Munich, the Munich School of Philosophy and the University of Bologna. After holding positions at the Munich Center for Advanced Studies, UC Berkeley, Yale University, the University of Groningen and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen, he has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Bremen since 2023.