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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking
Contributor:
Parisi, Luciana
imprint:
SAGE Publications, 2019
Published in:Theory, Culture & Society
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/0263276418818889
ISSN:
0263-2764;
1460-3616
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p> As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, logical inference and sheer calculation. Since the 1980s, computational systems of information processing have evolved to include not only deductive methods of decision, whereby results are already implicated in their premises, but have crucially shifted towards an adaptive practice of learning from data, an inductive method of retrieving information from the environment and establishing general premises. This shift in logical methods of decision-making does not simply concern technical apparatuses, but is a symptom of a transformation in logical thinking activated with and through machines. This article discusses the pioneering work of Katherine Hayles, whose study of the cybernetic and computational infrastructures of our culture particularly clarifies this epistemological transformation of thinking in relation to machines. </jats:p>