Название: The World As A Neural Network: The Story Of Ai And Our Future
Автор: Bandi Niraja, Arghya Chakraborty
Издательство: Amazon.com Services LLC
Год: 2021
Страниц: 105
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, azw3, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The book is the culmination of the authors’ own initiatives to understand the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with our daily lives. Most students in this country have very little idea about how AI is transforming the job market, as do most professionals, who are in various fields that are currently being transformed in the hands of AI. We continue to have passive interaction with increasingly complex AI technologies in our day-to- day lives without realizing what impact it currently has on our society and more importantly, the common future of humanity. This project is our attempt to make sense of the changes that are being driven by AI and our attempts to adjust to these.

We are undeniably living in what has been called the ‘Information Age.’ The term encapsulates the growing necessity and ubiquity of information in our time, along with its total dominance of economic, social, and political processes as we know it. Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a revolutionary aspect of technological innovation in the first half of the 21st century. It is likely only to assume greater significance as these innovations become increasingly central to many of our societal functions as a whole. Yet, in terms of policy-making and public discourse, very little attention is paid in this regard. This needs to change.

Most debates that are actually held on the future of AI are usually made on a technocratic basis and have very little to offer in terms of a real understanding of the multifaceted challenges that face us in our own time. While we think about the future of AI, we either imagine pictures of an unhindered utopia or an authoritarian dystopia. Both attitudes are rooted in what can be considered an ‘undialectical’ imagination of the future where there is either a complete lack of understanding of the powers and limitations of technology and the overall contours of our social organization. This results from a lack of engagement between disciplines at the academic level and the segregation of knowledge into neat boxes and pigeonholes. There will, of course, be a transformation of the fundamental manner in which knowledge and information are organized in our world, and the resultant ripple effects will be felt all over. The only way we can understand the extent of the impact of these changes is by actually engaging with how AI is impacting our contemporary society.