This is prompted by Ron’s remarks on the first AI blog…or blog on AI… Is it the case that the apparent ‘advantage’ of AI over human persons, that it can achieve an ‘objectivity’ or ‘neutrality’ (the latter is the preferred classification of capital), its Achilles heel? AI feeds on what already exists, it necessarily remains …
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Artificial Intelligence 2
Perhaps, instead of calling this new ideological product AI, we should refer to it as “machinic thinking”; I’m using ‘machinic’ rather than ‘machine’ deliberately because this term seems, to me, to capture the ways in which this technology is designed, and promoted, to imply the idea of “better than”, not “different to”. The end goal …
Artificial ‘Intelligence’? 1
This term, “Artificial Intelligence” (from hereon, AI), has managed to become part of everyday language without an apparent challenge to, or questioning of, what it means. The area of meaning seems the right place in which to start, particularly in regard to ‘intelligence’. The ‘intelligence’ being referred to, although classed as ‘artificial’, is actually that …
Murmurs from the Forest 