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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... life affect their status. To answer these questions, Botting turns not to science or philosophy but to fiction, especially the works of Mary Shelley. Probably no single text has influenced how people think about artificial life and artificial intelligence as profoundly as Shelley's 1818 masterpiece...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... a big deal for the work that you do? Ted Chiang (TC): Your example of the word phone reminds me of an example I remember from an article on writing science fiction about how words evolve and change their meanings. The example was let's charge the battery . You could have said that sentence...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to push back. It operates in all realms of knowledge: in the counterfactuals ventured across the disciplines; in the guesswork and hypotheses that shape experiments in the natural sciences; in the speculative desires and fears of the utopian and dystopian. It can generate norms, as in the “legal fiction...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... the popular understanding of AI and its technological horizon are deeply conditioned by an influential body of fictional works in which Promethean science quests after the secrets of life itself—usually to dystopian effect. Nevertheless, while science fiction has shaped the popular imaginary of “AI...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... the breathless anticipation of technolibertarianism—which Barbrook and Cameron's ( 1995 ) “Californian Ideology” noted combines C18-era libertarianism and science fiction—to questionable fears that an impending technological “singularity” will give rise to sentient AI capable of exterminating human society...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...), for example, don't go far in explaining what the relationship is between the artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems promoted by ideologues and the machine learning systems the book has discussed previously. At least for most mainstream practitioners, and even most critics, AGI is a science fiction...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... , and Michael W. Yang . 2021 . “ Algorithmic Reparation .” Big Data and Society 8 , no. 2 . https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211044810 . Davison-Vecchione, Daniel , and Sean Seeger . 2021 . “ Ursula Le Guin's Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity, and Science Fiction...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... between a program and its referent. Science fiction has represented intelligence as vulnerability for years, as in the ominous HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the replicants in Blade Runner , whose plight culminates in the unforgettable “tears in rain” scene. Some kind of proxy for these fictional...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... cords, hands, faces, or written signs.” Harari and colleagues thus set aside the diverse and historically situated origins and trajectories of human signifying capacities to conjure a single telos that (despite their contrary claim) seems ripped from the pages of science fiction: A.I.’s new mastery...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... the inaugural issue of a journal called Critical AI to the topic of “data worlds.” Whereas artificial intelligence evokes science fiction and the bleeding edge of technology, data suggests something more mundane and humble: numbers, spreadsheets, or graphs, for example. According to the Oxford English...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... human language use as it has been understood since the advent of the cognitive revolution in the social sciences (see, e.g., Chomsky 1959 ; Miller, Galanter, and Pribram 1960 ). Nor do LLMs frame linguistic exchange through any of the many theorizations of human communication as an interactive...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...” of the real world. In the literature on dataset production, “photograph” and “real-world scene” are often used interchangeably. 1 Absent is an explicit understanding of photography as a versatile technology put to work in the service of art, science, journalism, and historiography, let alone as a complex...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Translated by Gill Mertens . Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Plomer, Aurora . 2013 . “ The Human Rights Paradox: Intellectual Property Rights and Rights of Access to Science .” Human Rights Quarterly 35 , no. 1 : 143 – 75...
