ARTIFICIAL COMMUNICATION

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication Algorithms 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 too smart In Artificial Communication 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 artificial intelligence but in terms of artificial communication To 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 tha