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Author Possati, Luca M. (Luca Maria), author

Title The algorithmic unconscious : how psychoanalysis helps in understanding AI / Luca M. Possati
Published Milton London ; New York, New York : Taylor & Francis Group,: Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 143 pages) : illustrations
Series Antinomies Ser
Antinomies Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Beyond the metal face -- Psychoanalysis and AI: the odd couple -- Psychoanalysis: a continuously expanding field -- AI can be said in many ways -- This book's scope and results -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Why an algorithmic unconscious for AI? -- 1.1 What this book is about -- 1.2 Machine behavior: research perspectives and the status of the art -- Note -- References
Chapter 2 The unconscious and technology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The mirror stage: from technology to the unconscious -- 2.2.1 Lacan's concept of the mirror stage -- 2.2.2 Latour's reinterpretation of the mirror stage -- 2.3 The Oedipus complex: from the unconscious to technology -- 2.3.1 Lacan's Oedipus complex -- 2.3.2 Latour's Oedipus complex -- 2.4 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The difficulty of being AI -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Projective identification in psychoanalysis -- 3.3 Projective identification in AI
3.4 What is "emotional programming"? Simulation and interpretation -- 3.5 Objection and reply: the AI collectif -- 3.6 Types of AI projective identification -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Errors, noise, bias, and sleeping -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Errors -- 4.3 Noise -- 4.4 Algorithmic bias -- 4.5 AI needs to sleep too -- 4.6 Data visualization as a form of hermeneutics -- 4.7 The algorithmic unconscious topic -- 4.8 Appendix on software and programming psychology -- Notes -- References
Chapter 5 A Freudian computer: Neuropsychoanalysis and affective neuroscience as a framework to understand artificial ... -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A case study: Anella -- 5.3 Neuropsychoanalysis: beyond Freud, with Freud -- 5.4 The neuropsychoanalytic model of the mind -- 5.5 The primitive affective states, or the basic human values -- 5.6 A Freudian computer: sketches -- 5.6.1 The foundations of AGI -- 5.6.2 A system composed of multiple systems -- 5.6.3 A body for AGI -- 5.7 Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 6 Conclusions: Toward an ethnographic and psychoanalytic study of AI
Notes Includes index
Description based upon print version of record
Subject Artificial intelligence -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000345353
1000345351