Artificial Communication How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication. Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a devi...

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Main Author: Esposito, Elena (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
Series:Strong Ideas
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