LLMs as Humanity's DNA - Introducing a Harmonious Human-AI Relationship Through a Biosemiotic Lens

Explore a groundbreaking biosemiotic perspective on large language models in this conference talk that reframes AI as humanity's cultural DNA rather than autonomous intelligence or mere mimicry. Discover how LLMs function as externalized informational substrates that preserve compressed patterns of human symbolic expression, becoming meaningful only through human reinterpretation in a generative feedback loop. Learn about this novel framework that positions AI as evolutionary tools enabling humanity to create hypotheses in low-stakes simulated environments while maintaining human interpretation to ground outputs in cultural aesthetics and norms. Examine how this biosemiotic lens reveals a harmonious human-AI relationship where technology serves as a catalyst for creative processes and collective problem-solving. Gain insights from computational cognitive scientist Parham Pourdavood, whose interdisciplinary research spans neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and biosemiotics, as he presents his work on how emerging technologies shape cultural evolution and transform technological patterns into instruments of meaningful self-reflection and aesthetic expression.