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Record Nr.

UNINA9911115464403321

Autore

Esposito Elena

Titolo

Artificial communication : how algorithms produce social intelligence / / Elena Esposito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2022

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2022

ISBN

9780262368872

0262368870

9780262368865

0262368862

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Strong ideas series

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Social aspects

Artificial intelligence - Social aspects

Online identities

Social intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Artificial Communication? Algorithms as Interaction Partners -- 2 Organizing without Understanding: Lists in Ancient and Digital Cultures -- 3 Reading Images: Visualization and Interpretation in Digital Text Analysis -- 4 Getting Personal with Algorithms -- 5 Algorithmic Memory and the Right to Be Forgotten -- 6 Forgetting Pictures -- 7 The Future of Prediction: From Statistical Uncertainty to Algorithmic Forecasts -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we have learned to communicate with them"--