Artificial cognition: Intelligence delegation in the digital age

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7656610

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence, Cognitive ecologies, Black box, Myth of progress, Neuromythology

Abstract

The phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently presented as a relevant study object to think about how our cognition is constructed and distributed between humans and technologies, since AI will significantly modify the forms in which we produce and access knowledge of the world, while maintaining a controversial position on the limits between the human and the artificial.

Author Biography

Andrés Pachón, Coimbra University

Andrés Pachón (Madrid, 1985) is educated in Anthropology (master's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), 2019) and in Contemporary Art (degree in Fine Arts, UCM - CES Felipe II, 2008; master's degree in Theory and Contemporary Art Practice, UCM, 2009). In recent years, he has developed a visual practice that reflects on the construction of the colonial imaginary through the use of photographic archives in anthropological and ethnographic practices, collaborating to this end with institutions such as the Museé du Quai Branly in Paris, the National Museum of Anthropology of Madrid or the Photographic Archive of the Museum of Art of Lima (MALI) in Peru. His latest works focus on the role played by technological mediation in the construction of knowledge, establishing relationships between the practices of the s. XIX and XX and the technological uses of the present, as is the case of his current research on the sociotechnical activity of Computer Vision systems by Artificial Intelligence.

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2019-09-30

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Pachón, A. (2019). Artificial cognition: Intelligence delegation in the digital age. ASRI. Art and Society. Journal for Research in Arts and Digital Humanities, (17), 93–107. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7656610

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No. 17 (2019): Images Flow

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