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Conference – ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction’

August 10, 2021/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 12-13 May 2022, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, and the Waseda University, Tokyo, will be co-hosting the Japanese-German conference ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction’. Understanding imaginations about the human and technologies as culturally specific, the conference invites a cross-cultural comparison to explore […]

Conference – ‘Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century’

July 12, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

On 24 September 2020, the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University, Prague, will be hosting the conference “Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century – Automated Journalism and AI Journalism”. From simple templates to automated content production, from algorithms to the detection of fake news: How does the rise of artificial intelligence change […]

Editorial NECSUS

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This issue of NECSUS has been compiled, if not written, during the COVID-19 pandemic which has produced a shock across various existential domains: personal, social, political, economic, public health — the list goes on. Some of us may already have settled into new habits and routines that make this situation livable; yet a sense of […]

Tales from the cyborg society: The construction of subject and power in contemporary artificial intelligence(s) narratives

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This paper aims to analyse how cultural products reflect the topics and problematics derived from technological and scientific advances and how these relate to the construction of the subject and power. Following the terminology coined by Foucault, this paper will refer to the technologies of the self and the technologies of power reflected in the new approaches to the relationships between humans and machines. In this precise sense, AI narratives and contemporary speculative fictions construct new realities in which factual truths turn into virtual realities and hyperrealities, usually addressing power and political conflicts as well as socioeconomic implications.

Playing intelligence: On representations and uses of artificial intelligence in videogames

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

Computer games take up and extend traditional discourses on technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Moreover, representations of AI in computer games include not only narrative aspects but game mechanics as well. This contribution focuses on what distinguishes this kind of AI representation from other medial forms, and on how different types of AI representation can be identified within the computer games field. Overall, representations of AI make visible specific aspects and ideologies implied by the gameplay. From this perspective, it is outlined how these representations work either as support for fantasies of self-empowerment or as an emphasis on medial determination; moreover, cultural functions and meanings provided in this context are higlighted.

The artificial intelligence of a machine: Moving images in the age of algorithms

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This article introduces the special section #Intelligence, which includes seven essays addressing the impact of artificial intelligence on cinema and media from a cultural perspective. More particularly, three levels of pertinence are focused on. For the first level, selected papers analyse several representations of non-human intelligence confronted with human intelligence, as provided by film, television series, and video games. On the second level, a set of mutual functioning dynamics between AI and the media are identified and scrutinised. On the third level, the contributing authors consider how AI algorithms lead cinema and media theory to deeply rethink its assumptions about creating and viewing moving images.

The Golem in the age of artificial intelligence

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

What can the Jewish myth of the Golem teach us about artificial intelligence? This article explores the Golem as one of the earliest AI prototypes and a myth that became a foundational story of sci-fi cinema. The Golem sets the parameters of opposition between men and intelligent or sentient machines, and at the same time points to possible third options beyond the dialectic of control.

Clipping us together: The case of the Google Clips camera

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This article uses the Google Clips camera as a case study to illustrate the impact of autonomous machine learning on self-perception, and to investigate how ‘delegation’ of our self to those cameras occurs. The research is based on reviews of the Google Clips camera, analysed using Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) and interpreted using Don Ihde’s postphenomonological framework complemented by Bruno Latour’s relation analysis. Positioning the Clips camera as a technological mediator, the analysis concentrates on human-technology-world interaction relations. The research findings include changes in self-perception through complex concepts, such as autonomy, agency, and rationality.

NECSUS Spring 2020_#Intelligence — call for submissions

May 13, 2019/1 Comment/in News /by Greg DeCuir

guest edited by Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam) and Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) The advent of new algorithms of machine learning and AI is producing a profound revolution in societies: indeed, the ‘algorithmic turn’ involves cultural, cognitive, emotional, and practical layers of everyday life; from this point of view, AI directly […]

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Conference – ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction’

Conference – ‘Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century’

Editorial NECSUS

Tales from the cyborg society: The construction of subject and power in contemporary artificial intelligence(s) narratives

Playing intelligence: On representations and uses of artificial intelligence in videogames

The artificial intelligence of a machine: Moving images in the age of algorithms

The Golem in the age of artificial intelligence

Clipping us together: The case of the Google Clips camera

NECSUS Spring 2020_#Intelligence — call for submissions

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