380° <g...@biscuolo.net> writes: [...]
> Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology. By > Adrienne Mayor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 275 > pp. (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-691-18351-0. scusate l'invadenza, poi smetto, ma sono riuscito a recuperare il libro e questo passo nell'introduzione secondo me riassume in modo egregio la connessione tra il tecno-mito antico e il tecno-mito contemporaneo: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- With a few exceptions, in the myths as they have survived from antiquity, the inner workings and power sources of automata are not described but left to our imagination. In effect, this nontransparency renders the divinely crafted contrivances analogous to what we call “black box” technology, machines whose interior workings are mysterious. Arthur C. Clarke’s famous dictum comes to mind: the more advanced the technology, the more it seems like magic. Ironically, in modern technoculture, most people are at a loss to explain how the appliances of their daily life, from smartphones and laptops to automobiles, actually work, not to mention nuclear submarines or rockets. We know these are manufactured artifacts, designed by ingenious inventors and assembled in factories, but they might as well be magic. It is often remarked that human intelligence itself is a kind of black box. And we are now entering a new level of pervasive black box technology: machine learning soon will allow Artificial Intelligence entities to amass, select, and interpret massive sets of data to make decisions and act on their own, with no human oversight or understanding of the processes. Not only will the users of AI be in the dark, but even the makers will be ignorant of the secret workings of their own creations. In a way, we will come full circle to the earliest myths about awesome, inscrutable artificial life and biotechne. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, 380° P.S.: ho trovato anche un paio di video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-j7G6JzbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIAlToJMbQ -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
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