The Algorithmic Unconscious: How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI
Author:   Luca Possati
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367694043


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Format:   Hardback
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The Algorithmic Unconscious: How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI


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Author:   Luca Possati
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.040kg
ISBN:  

9780367694043


ISBN 10:   0367694042
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Why an Algorithmic Unconscious for AI? 2. The Unconscious and Technology 3. The Difficulty of Being AI 4. Errors, Noise, Bias, and Sleeping 5. A Freudian Computer: Neuropsychoanalysis and Affective Neuroscience as a Framework to Understand Artificial General Intelligence 6. Conclusions: Toward an Ethnographic and Psychoanalytic Study of AI

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"""In this illuminating book, Luca M. Possati explores the unconscious dimension of Artificial Intelligence. Its main thesis is that in the age of big data and self-learning neural networks ‘machine behavior’ has become dark and impenetrable and is in need for interpretation. Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Latour’s actor-network theory the author offers an original and timely analysis of how we project our deepest desires in AI technologies and pleas for a new ‘subcortical AI’."" - Jos de Mul, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands"


In this illuminating book, Luca M. Possati explores the unconscious dimension of Artificial Intelligence. Its main thesis is that in the age of big data and self-learning neural networks 'machine behavior' has become dark and impenetrable and is in need for interpretation. Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Latour's actor-network theory the author offers an original and timely analysis of how we project our deepest desires in AI technologies and pleas for a new 'subcortical AI'. - Jos de Mul, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands


In this illuminating book, Luca M. Possati explores the unconscious dimension of Artificial Intelligence. Its main thesis is that in the age of big data and self-learning neural networks 'machine behavior' has become dark and impenetrable and is in need for interpretation. Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Latour's actor-network theory the author offers an original and timely analysis of how we project our deepest desires in AI technologies and pleas for a new 'subcortical AI'. - Jos de Mul, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands


Author Information

Luca M. Possati is a researcher in philosophy at the University of Porto, Portugal. His fields of investigation are philosophy of technology and artificial intelligence. He is the author of many studies in phenomenology and the history of philosophy.

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