{"product_id":"artificial-communication-isbn-9780262046664","title":"Artificial Communication","description":"\u003cb\u003eA proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of \u003ci\u003eartificial intelligenc\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cu\u003ee\u003c\/u\u003e but as \u003ci\u003eartificial communication\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlgorithms 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 device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become \u003ci\u003etoo\u003c\/i\u003e smart? In \u003ci\u003eArtificial Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of “smart” machines not in terms of \u003ci\u003eartificial intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e but in terms of \u003ci\u003eartificial communication\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTo do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an algorithm—which is not random and is completely controlled, although not by the processes of the human mind. Esposito investigates this by examining the use of algorithms in different areas of social life. She explores the proliferation of lists (and lists of lists) online, explaining that the web works on the basis of lists to produce further lists; the use of visualization; digital profiling and algorithmic individualization, which personalize a mass medium with playlists and recommendations; and the implications of the “right to be forgotten.” Finally, she considers how photographs today seem to be used to escape the present rather than to preserve a memory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction IX\u003cbr\u003e1 Artificial Communication? Algorithms as Interaction Partners 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Organizing without Understanding: Lists in Ancient and Digital Cultures 19\u003cbr\u003e3 Reading Images: Visualization and Interpretation in Digital Text Analysis 31\u003cbr\u003e4 Getting Personal with Algorithms 47\u003cbr\u003e5 Algorithmic Memory and the Right to be Forgotten 65\u003cbr\u003e6 Forgetting Pictures 79\u003cbr\u003e7 The Future of Prediction: From Statistical Uncertainty to Algorithmic Forecasts 87\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 107\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 113\u003cbr\u003eNotes 115\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 147\u003cbr\u003eIndex 181\"Thought-provoking and profoundly relevant.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eE\u0026amp;T Magazine \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An innovative look at artificial intelligence that does not seek to oppose the intelligence of humans against that of machines, but rather explores the variety of communications between our societies and artifacts that do not reason like us but have learned to know us.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDominique Cardon, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Médialab at Sciences Po Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Building on her pivotal understanding of Luhmann’s concept of communication, Esposito highlights the crucial role of communication with AI systems. She does so in a wholly new way, thus challenging conventional wisdom in AI and AI ethics.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMireille Hildebrandt, Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Radboud University; author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmart Environments and the End(s) of Law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eElena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the University Bielefeld and the University of Bologna.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300612133093,"sku":"NP9780262046664","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262046664.jpg?v=1767721821","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/artificial-communication-isbn-9780262046664","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}