phaidra.ustp.at o:7213 DOI 10.60522/o:7213 Meaning and Language in Artificial Intelligence’s own Linguistic Turn This paper examines the rapid development of generative visual artificial intelligence, particularly text-to image models, through the lens of 20th-century philosophy of language. It contrasts the one-to-one symbolic representation reminiscent of early Wittgenstein and traditional AI with the subsymbolic, conceptual synthesis found in modern neural networks like CLIP and diffusion models. The paper traces the technological evolution from GANs to diffusion, analyzing the implications for creativity, originality, and the machine's capacity for metaphor. It argues that while current models can visually render complex concepts by learning from vast datasets, they struggle with true abductive reasoning and novel metaphor creation, thus highlighting the persistent limits of machine understanding when compared to human language. eng Generative AI Text-to-Image Models Philosophy of Language Computational Semantics Neural Networks 2025-07-18T11:54:46.613Z LOMv1.0 Author BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Caldas Vianna;Bruno; FN:Bruno Caldas Vianna END:VCARD https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/scheme https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/text Textdokument Text LOMv1.0 yes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf 163707 https://phaidra.ustp.at/o:7213 https://phaidra.ustp.at/api/object/o:7213/thumbnail LOMv1.0 discipline https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012 https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/6 HUMANITIES GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/604 Arts Kunstwissenschaften https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/6040 Arts Kunstwissenschaften https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012 https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/2 TECHNICAL SCIENCES TECHNISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/2020 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/202022 Information technology Informationstechnik https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012 https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/5 SOCIAL SCIENCES SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/508 Media and Communication Sciences Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/5080 Media and Communication Sciences Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012 https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/2 TECHNICAL SCIENCES TECHNISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/2020 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik https://w3id.org/oerbase/vocabs/oefos2012/202002 Audiovisual media Audiovisuelle Medien