Human geography according to artificial intelligence. A small experiment

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Alberto Vanolo
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 83-100 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa2-2023oa15936
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This short commentary aims to stimulate a debate on the limits and possibilities of using artificial intelligence in human and cultural geographies. Specifically, it is considered the potential relationship between artificial intelligence and academic writing, and the idea of geography proposed and reproduced by algorithms. These considerations are developed out of a dialogue on Italian human geographies carried out by the author of this commentary and by the chatbot named ChatGPT.

Keywords: ; artificial intelligence, geography, ChatGPT, political unconscious

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Alberto Vanolo, La geografia umana secondo un’ intelligenza artificiale. Un piccolo esperimento in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 2/2023, pp 83-100, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa2-2023oa15936