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The proletarianization of thought, Anne Alombert on artificial intelligence and artificial stupidity

anon_niri said in #1247 1y ago: received

https://journals.openedition.org/appareil/6979

I find Anne Alombert's writing on artificial intelligence interesting, since it seems to provide an alternative to what could be called accelerationism, maybe boosterism, and skepticism. I'll see what you think. Roughly, she attempts, after Georges Canguilhem, to have us question the metaphors, analogies, and heuristic devices (the brain as computer, the computer as brain) that we use to talk about artificial intelligence, and, more interesting to me, after Gilbert Simondon, to talk about intelligence in a new way, which is as the circulation of meaning between various agents, including individuals and machines. There is, if we think it's important to be capable of thought, or of, say, passing things on through generations, a danger in the industrial control of symbolic circulation, and in removing individuals completely from it. The conclusion attempts to figure out an alternative in a contributive internet, or a "hermeneutic web," as she says, quoting Bernard Stiegler. Do we need to have control over our collective intelligence?

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