{"product_id":"artificial-communication-how-algorithms-produce-social-intelligence-hardcover","title":"Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElena Esposito\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of \u003ci\u003eartificial intelligenc\u003c\/i\u003ee but as \u003ci\u003eartificial communication\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlgorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become \u003ci\u003etoo\u003c\/i\u003e smart? In \u003ci\u003eArtificial Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of \"smart\" machines not in terms of \u003ci\u003eartificial intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e but in terms of \u003ci\u003eartificial communication\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an algorithm--which is not random and is completely controlled, although not by the processes of the human mind. Esposito investigates this by examining the use of algorithms in different areas of social life. She explores the proliferation of lists (and lists of lists) online, explaining that the web works on the basis of lists to produce further lists; the use of visualization; digital profiling and algorithmic individualization, which personalize a mass medium with playlists and recommendations; and the implications of the \"right to be forgotten.\" Finally, she considers how photographs today seem to be used to escape the present rather than to preserve a memory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the University Bielefeld and the University of Bologna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766626058528,"sku":"9780262046664","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dba0908a02a7de2a78e6576ac0968c7e.webp?v=1780295755","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/artificial-communication-how-algorithms-produce-social-intelligence-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}