Machine Intelligences, new edition of Culture Machine – available open access
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:26AM Culture Machine 20 (2021): Machine Intelligences, guest-edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt
https://culturemachine.net/vol-20-machine-intelligences/
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Vol 20: Machine Intelligences, guest-edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt
From the editors’ introduction
The aim of this special issue is to advance new critical perspectives on machine intelligence. Although the current hype surrounding artificial intelligence has been countered by several critical interventions, there is still a long way to go in order to produce a shift in the mainstream discourse concerning these technologies. The AI-hype has support from resourceful and well-connected actors within industry and politics. Within the art world and popular culture, AI appears to be a more ambiguous phenomena, associated with both blessings and grave dangers. Nevertheless, its development is all too often portrayed as though it is inevitable and that the path it will take is already set. The impulse behind this special issue is to deepen and diversify the interrogation of this seemingly inevitable development and to get a look behind the shiny surfaces of these supposedly new technologies. This special issue thus offers historical perspectives, conceptual re-thinking and situated analyses of the technical realities and the social and cultural implications of machine intelligence, in its many different forms and manifestations, with the hope that this will provide opportunities to intervene in and change the course of our technological futures….
Contents
Machine Intelligences – An Introduction – The Editors
The Mountain in the Machine: Optimization and the Landscapes of Machine Learning – Sam P. Kellogg
Generative Adversarial Copy Machines –Martin Zeilinger
Optimal Brain Damage: Theorizing the Nervous Present – Johannes Bruder & Orit Halpern
In Other Words: Smart Compose and the Consequences of Writing in the Age of AI – Crystal Chokshi
What Personalisation Can Do for You! or, How to Do Racial Discrimination Without ‘Race’ – Thao Phan & Scott Wark
Intelligent Borders? Securitizing Smartphones in the European Border Regime – Michelle Pfeifer
‘A Game That is Not a Game’: The Sublime Limit of Human Intelligence and AI Through Go – Kwasu Tembo
Whose Singularity? Artificial Intelligence as a Mechanism of Corporate Sovereignty
– Andrew Davis
Theseus in the Epistemic Labyrinth: Critical Histories of Data and the Apparent Weight of Color
– Evan Donahue
Artificially Shared Kinesthetic Intelligence – Lisa Müller-Trede
We Have Always Been Artificially Intelligent: An Interview with Joanna Zylinska
– Claudio Celis and Pablo Ortuzar Kunstmann
Playful Machine Learning: An Interaction Designer’s Journey into Neural Networks – Andreas Refsgaard