The cultural life of machine learning : an incursion into critical AI studies / Jonathan Roberge, Michael Castelle, editors.

This book brings together the work of sociologists and historians along with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations in 1950s and 1...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Roberge, Jonathan, 1976- (Editor), Castelle, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Toward an End-to-End Sociology of 21st-Century Machine Learning
  • 2. Mechanized Significance and Machine Learning: Why it Became Thinkable and Preferable to Teach Machines to Judge the World
  • 3. What Kind of Learning Is Machine Learning?
  • 4. The Other Cambridge Analytics: Early "Artificial Intelligence" in American Political Science
  • 5. Machinic Encounters: A Relational Approach to the Sociology of AI
  • 6. AlphaGos Deep Play: Technological Breakthrough as Social Drama
  • 7. Adversariality in Machine Learning Systems: On Neural Networks and the Limits of Knowledge
  • 8. Planetary Intelligence
  • 9. Critical Perspectives on Governance Mechanisms for AI/ML Systems.