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Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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dc.creatorApprich, Clemens
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T10:07:23Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T10:07:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstract“Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence” (GOFAI), which was based on a symbolic information-processing model of the mind, has been superseded by neural-network models to describe and create intelligence. Rather than a symbolic representation of the world, the idea is to mimic the structure of the brain in electronic form, whereby artificial neurons draw their own connections during a self-learning process. Critiquing such a brain physiological model, the following article takes up the idea of a “psychoanalysis of things” and applies it to artificial intelligence and machine learning. This approach may help to reveal some of the hidden layers within the current A. I. debate and hints towards a central mechanism in the psycho-economy of our socio-technological world: The question of “Who speaks?”, central for the analysis of paranoia, becomes paramount at a time, when algorithms, in the form of artificial neural networks, operate more and more as secret agents.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13524
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0104.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14450
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen
dc.subjectAIen
dc.subjectmachine learningen
dc.subjectdeep learningen
dc.subjectpsychoanalysisen
dc.subjectneural networken
dc.subjectdeterminismen
dc.subjectself-determinationen
dc.subjectKünstliche Intelligenzde
dc.subjectKIde
dc.subjectMaschinelles Lernende
dc.subjectPsychoanalysede
dc.subjectNeuronales Netzwerkde
dc.subjectDeterminismusde
dc.subjectSelbstbestimmungde
dc.subject.ddcddc:006
dc.subject.ddcddc:301
dc.titleSecret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learningen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:32:26
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0104.pdf
local.source.epage44
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleRethinking AI
local.source.spage29
local.source.volume4

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