Artificial Intelligence And Its Discontents

Author : Ariane Hanemaayer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030886158

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents by Ariane Hanemaayer Pdf

On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black feminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors analyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility and machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and nanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in literature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently working in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and programming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt, question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practiced and promoted.

Author : Paul Jorion
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030670047

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Humanism and its Discontents by Paul Jorion Pdf

This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that ‘Man was created in the image of God’, transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that ‘Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures’, further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment’s notion of human perfectibility. It explains also how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight against human extinction which may involve trespassing the boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or dematerialization of the Self and colonisation of distant planets and stars. Two authors debate about truth and reason in today’s world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism.

Author : Matteo Stocchetti
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789523690134

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The Digital Age and Its Discontents by Matteo Stocchetti Pdf

Three decades into the ‘digital age’, the promises of emancipation of the digital ‘revolution’ in education are still unfulfilled. Furthermore, digitalization seems to generate new and unexpected challenges – for example, the unwarranted influence of digital monopolies, the radicalization of political communication, and the facilitation of mass surveillance, to name a few. This volume is a study of the downsides of digitalization and the re-organization of the social world that seems to be associated with it. In a critical perspective, technological development is not a natural but a social process: not autonomous from but very much dependent upon the interplay of forces and institutions in society. While influential forces seek to establish the idea that the practices of formal education should conform to technological change, here we support the view that education can challenge the capitalist appropriation of digital technology and, therefore, the nature and direction of change associated with it. This volume offers its readers intellectual prerequisites for critical engagement. It addresses themes such as Facebook’s response to its democratic discontents, the pedagogical implications of algorithmic knowledge and quantified self, as well as the impact of digitalization on academic profession. Finally, the book offers some elements to develop a vision of the role of education: what should be done in education to address the concerns that new communication technologies seem to pose more risks than opportunities for freedom and democracy.

Author : Aden Evens,Alexander R. Galloway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452970646

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The Digital and Its Discontents by Aden Evens,Alexander R. Galloway Pdf

A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundations Whence that nagging sense that something in the digital is amiss—that, as wonderful as our devices are, time spent on smartphones and computers leaves us sour, enervated, alienated? The Digital and Its Discontents uniquely explains that worry and points us toward a more satisfying relationship between our digital lives and our nondigital selves, one that requires a radical change in the way we incorporate technology into our lives. Aden Evens analyzes universal technological principles—in particular, the binary logic—to show that they encourage certain ways of thinking while making others more challenging or impossible. What is out of reach for any digital machine is contingency, the ontological principle that refuses every rule. As humans engage ourselves and our world ever more through digital machines, we are losing touch with contingency and so banishing from our lives the accidental and unexpected that fuel our most creative and novel possibilities for living. Taking cues from philosophy rather than cultural or media theory, Evens argues that the consequences of this erosion of contingency are significant yet often overlooked because the same values that make the digital seem so desirable also make contingency seem unimportant—without contingency the digital is confined to what has already been thought, and yet the digital’s ubiquity has allowed it to disguise this inherent sterility. Responsive only to desires that meet the demands of its narrow logic, the digital requires its users to practice those same ideological dictates, instituting a hegemony of thought and value sustained by the pervasive presence of digital mechanisms. Interweaving technical and philosophical concepts, The Digital and Its Discontents advances a powerful and urgent argument about the digital and its impact on our lives. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

Author : Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.,Holly Crisp, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781615371273

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Narcissism and Its Discontents by Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.,Holly Crisp, M.D. Pdf

The definition of narcissism can be a moving target. Is it an excess of self-love? Profound insecurity? Low self-esteem? Too much self-esteem? Because of the multifaceted nature of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), treating this disorder presents clinicians with a range of wholly unique challenges. Narcissism and Its Discontents recognizes the variable nature of NPD and provides a template for adjusting treatment to the patient rather than shoehorning the patient into a manualized treatment that may prove to be less effectual. This guide offers clinicians strategies, including transference and countertransference, to deal with the complex situations that often arise when treating narcissistic patients, among them, patient entitlement, disengagement, and envy. The authors provide a skillful integration of research and psychoanalytic theory while also addressing psychotherapeutic strategies that are less intensive but also useful--being cognizant of the fact that a majority of patients do not have access to psychoanalysis proper. A chapter on the cultural aspects of narcissism addresses the recent societal fascination with NPD in the discourse on politics and celebrity, particularly in the age of social media. Regardless of the treatment setting--psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, partial hospital, or inpatient--clinicians will find a wealth of approaches to treating a diverse and challenging patient population in Narcissism and Its Discontents.

Author : Stefano Triberti,Davide La Torre,Jianyi Lin,Ilaria Durosini,Manuel Ruiz Galan
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889743223

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On the “Human” in Human-Artificial Intelligence Interaction by Stefano Triberti,Davide La Torre,Jianyi Lin,Ilaria Durosini,Manuel Ruiz Galan Pdf

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110721843

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The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies by Anthony Elliott Pdf

The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies examines the relationship of the social sciences to artificial intelligence, surveying the various convergences and divergences between science and technology studies on the one hand and identity transformations on the other. It provides representative coverage of all aspects of the AI revolution, from employment to education to military warfare, impacts on public policy and governance and the future of ethics. How is AI currently transforming social, economic, cultural and psychological processes? This handbook answers these questions by looking at recent developments in supercomputing, deep learning and neural networks, including such topics as AI mobile technology, social robotics, big data and digital research. It focuses especially on mechanisms of identity by defining AI as a new context for self-exploration and social relations and analyzing phenomena such as race, ethnicity and gender politics in human-machine interfaces.

Author : Richard J Wallace
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811232893

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Artificial Intelligence/ Human Intelligence: An Indissoluble Nexus by Richard J Wallace Pdf

This book presents a novel view of intelligence, and of the relationship between machine intelligence and human beings. From this perspective, machine intelligence is viewed as an artificial aid to human intelligence, and the two are seen to form a 'seamless web'.Having established this new perspective on intelligence, the book highlights some basic deficiencies of unaided human intelligence through case studies to show how human beings are capable of destroying existing intelligence networks as well as how they fail to recognize that such intelligence networks are needed. In many such cases, along with the other aspects of the problem, there is also a failure of discourse: bad arguments and the like dominate the discourse, and crucial aspects of the situation are overlooked or glossed over.The book then lays out a proposal on how to deal with this kind of problem — one that relies heavily on techniques developed in AI. This is done in the form of a new kind of grand challenge for AI, involving software monitors that are applied to discourse on major issues. All this is in keeping with the perspective on intelligence and AI presented in this book.

Author : Robert Markley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0801852269

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Virtual Realities and Their Discontents by Robert Markley Pdf

The recognition that cyberspace is a fiction -- a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine "really" exists -- is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks. In this groundbreaking volume Robert Markley and his co-authors set out to discover why "cyberspace provokes often-rapturous rhetoric but resists critical analysis." Taking a variety of approaches, the authors explore the ways in which virtual realities conserve and incorporate rather than overthrow the assumptions and values of a traditional, logocentric humanism: the Platonist division of the world into the physical and metaphysical in which ideal forms are valued over material content. Cyberspace, David Porush suggests, represents not a break with our metaphysical past but an extension of its basic theistic postulates. Richard Grusin argues that the claims for new forms of electronic communication depend upon the very notions of authorship -- and subjectivity -- they claim to transcend. N. Katherine Hayles examines debates about cybernetics in the 1950s to demonstrate that the history of mind-body ideas in the age of computers and feedback loops is itself conflicted. David Brande analyzes cyberspace as an extension of the logic of late twentieth-century capitalism. And Robert Markley explores the entangled roots of cyberspace in the philosophy of mathematics. "One of the ironies of our culture's fascination with cyberspace is that our material and psychic investments in Virtual Reality suggest that the death of print culture -- or its disappearance into the matrix -- has been greatly exaggerated.... Cyberspace is unthinkable, literally inconceivable, without the print culture it claims to transcend. It is, in part, a by-product of a tradition of metaphysics that, boats against the current, bears us back relentlessly to our past." -- Robert Markley, from the introduction

Author : Matteo Baldoni,Cristina Baroglio,Guido Boella,Roberto Micalizio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319035246

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AI*IA 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Baldoni,Cristina Baroglio,Guido Boella,Roberto Micalizio Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2013, held in Turin, Italy, in December 2013. The 45 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The conference covers broadly the many aspects of theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence as follows: knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing, planning, distributed AI: robotics and MAS, recommender systems and semantic Web and AI applications.

Author : Allam Hamdan,Aboul Ella Hassanien,Anjum Razzaque,Bahaaeddin Alareeni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030627966

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implementation of Artificial Intelligence for Growing Business Success by Allam Hamdan,Aboul Ella Hassanien,Anjum Razzaque,Bahaaeddin Alareeni Pdf

This book focuses on the implementation of AI for growing business, and the book includes research articles and expository papers on the applications of AI on decision-making, health care, smart universities, public sector and digital government, FinTech, and RegTech. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a vital and a fundamental driver for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR). Its influence is observed at homes, in the businesses and in the public spaces. The embodied best of AI reflects robots which drive our cars, stock our warehouses, monitor our behaviors and warn us of our health, and care for our young children. Some researchers also discussed the role of AI in the current COVID-19 pandemic, whether in the health sector, education, and others. On all of these, the researchers discussed the impact of AI on decision-making in those vital sectors of the economy.

Author : Fatima Roumate
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030686475

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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Diplomacy by Fatima Roumate Pdf

This volume discusses digital diplomacy and artificial intelligence within the context of global governance and international security. Rapid digitalization has changed the way international actors interact, offering new opportunities for international and bilateral cooperation and reinforcing the role of the emergent actors within global governance. New phenomena linked to digitalization and artificial intelligence are emerging and this volume brings a multidisciplinary, mixed-methods approach to studying them. Written by globally recognized experts, each chapter presents a case study covering an emerging topic such as: international regulation of the web and digital diplomacy, the interplay of artificial intelligence and cyber diplomacy, social media and artificial intelligence as tools for digital diplomacy, the malicious use of artificial intelligence, cyber security, and data sovereignty. Incorporating both theory and practice, quantitative and qualitative analysis, this volume will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in international relations, diplomacy, security studies, and artificial intelligence, as well as diplomats and policymakers looking to understand the implications of digitalization and artificial intelligence in their fields.

Author : Nina Klimburg-Witjes,Paul Trauttmansdorff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000953572

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Technopolitics and the Making of Europe by Nina Klimburg-Witjes,Paul Trauttmansdorff Pdf

This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity. Expert contributors address distinct areas, from border politics and biosecurity to health governance and law and border control enforcement, to examine the various ways in which infrastructures are envisioned, designed, negotiated and built. They explore how ‘infrastructuring’ contributes to emergent forms of European identity, integration, and statehood. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Science and Technology Studies, Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, International Relations, European Integration Studies, Infrastructure Studies, or Critical Border and Migration Studies. The Introduction and the Afterword of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Shuhong Zhao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819707225

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Principle of Criminal Imputation for Negligence Crime Involving Artificial Intelligence by Shuhong Zhao Pdf

Author : Om Pal,Vinod Kumar,Rijwan Khan,Bashir Alam,Mansaf Alam
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000908022

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Cyber Security Using Modern Technologies by Om Pal,Vinod Kumar,Rijwan Khan,Bashir Alam,Mansaf Alam Pdf

1. Addresses a broad range of cyber security issues of modern networks 2. The book will comprise state-of-the-art techniques, methods and solutions for today's privacy / security issues. 3. Interdisciplinary approaches for countering the latest attacks on networks. 4. Will be excellent book for students, postgraduates and professionals.