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Financial markets, algorithmic feeds, and AI models are all ways of producing or revealing “value” (in the form of money, pleasure, attention) without producing understanding. They are ways to process data without having a theory for why you are processing it, just a target. In effect, these mechanisms make understanding less valuable, if not altogether harmful. Understanding a system would allow people to game it and falsify it; or to put that another way, the only useful systems are incomprehensible.
Smell the Glove Is Here
Rob Horning
Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event,” if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural—or structurality—thought to reduce or to suspect. But let me use the term “event” anyway, employing it with caution and as if in quotation marks. In this sense, this event will
have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling.
1966 lecture: “Structure, Sign, of the Human Sciences”
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Transcription/Translation. The fourth type is the automatic translation of information from one format to another: automatic transcription (sometimes called “automatic speech recognition” or “speech to text”), finding words and characters in images (like automatically reading license plates), machine translation of one language to another, or something like image style transfer (taking a selfie and making it look like an anime character).
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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