Gilles Deleuze
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Gilles Deleuze. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Gilles Deleuze's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
I remember the exact moment I stopped breathing.
Not literally — though Deleuze would appreciate the resonance, given how his own lungs betrayed him. I mean the moment I watched Claude write a piece of software I'd been turning over in my head for weeks, and it did it in ninety seconds, and it was better than what I would have built, and I felt simultaneously omnipotent and obsolete. That airless moment. That gap where you're supposed to feel something — triumph or terror — and instead you feel both, pressed together so tightly they become a third thing you don't have a name for.
I went looking for the name. I found it in three pages written by a dying philosopher in 1990.
Deleuze couldn't
