Dive into AI fantasies

Let’s dive into the fantasies of artificial intelligence: who Frankenstein From Mary Shelley’s 1818 to Film to her From Spike Jonze two centuries later, the humanoid machine was added break So is Philip K. Dick’s Androids. But also legendary 2001, A Spaceflight By Stanley Kubrick…

All of these achievements serve to reinvent” technological exclusivity By researcher and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, it seems imperative today to understand the impact of artificial intelligence on our societies, and to take a detour across His important novels.

And if it proves that analyzing multiple creations of this kind is necessary today not only to learn about artificial intelligence, but to work tomorrow on our future even beyond technology?

The conference is part of the project.cultures“, for the cultural history of artificial intelligence. The research hypothesis is based on the need to understand artificial intelligence not only as a set of algorithms, but also”Technology“.

In other words, the part in which the sciences involved (mathematics, information sciences, and cognitive sciences) are embedded in the institutions that shape scientific practices, but also in the cultural contexts they exist in and in fantasies that include ideologies, fantasies, and sensitive representations.

Design and thinking

Ariel Keiro, of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, opens the ball with various conferences offered online. To attend, contact the organizers at this address (spread by Zoom). He uses science fiction, counterculture, and contemporary art as much as philosophy to reflect on and heal today’s world. He is the managing editor of the Cognacq-Jay Foundation’s Solidarity Lab and a member of the editorial team of Multitude.

Note that next April’s Ariel Kiro book, in the imagination of the future, will be published in a pocket format (Helios group in Actusf). The two most powerful imaginings of the future today are technological overload and the ecological apocalypse. They combine to cause a stupor in us, a short circuit of thought and action.

The challenge in this essay is to break out of this impasse by tracing the paths and horizon to get there: building a lucid political utopia in the long run, from anarchic and earthly inspiration, against the dominant ideology and in full awareness of the dangers of dystopia.

His method: Considering TV series, motion pictures, comics, novels, and science fiction stories as an extraordinary source of knowledge and leads to understanding the current predicaments of the environment and everything digital, and then trying to open up alternative paths for tomorrow.

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