it is more than surprise!
you know, when i hear computer scientists, developers, software
engineers saying AI to an algorithm (whatever algorithm), or to an app
that -- i don't know -- connects daylight data with alarm clock, naive
me, who hoped to see singularity with her own eyes one day,
Using term "AI" also facilitates occupying the human "interface space",
by squeezing out other humans from it. In other words, bots are coming
to real space (almost wrote "meatspace" :)
People "talk" to "voice assistants". More and more service phone lines
use IVR and insist on user "talking"
Un-friend my Heart - Revisiting Ilana Gershin on Facebook
Despite being nearly a decade old its a good time to take another look at
the work of anthropologist Ilana Gershin’s work The Ethics of Disconection in
Neo-liberal Age on Fb pioneering role of schooling a generation in
becoming
