NEW BOOK: Borges and the Knowledge Machine: From the Infinite Library to the Age of AI
Borges and the Knowledge Machine traces a path from Borges’s infinite library to search engines, generative AI, and human discernment. NEW BOOK: Borges and the Knowledge Machine: From the Infinite Library to the Age of AI A new book traces Borges’s infinite library through search, generative AI, and the problem of human discernment. Why Does Borges Return in the Age of AI? Jorge Luis Borges wrote long before search engines, wikis, and large language models became part of everyday life. Yet The Library of Babel and Ficciones continue to offer striking ways to think about a world in which texts multiply, information becomes searchable, and the boundaries between what is written, found, generated, and believed become increasingly difficult to separate. This does not mean that Borges predicted artificial intelligence in a simple technological sense. His importance lies elsewhere. Borges constructed literary worlds in which knowledge could become infinite while human understanding remained ...