Technological imagination as a source of the culture of neural networks

0580741 - ÚČL 2024 RIV SK eng J - Journal Article
Husárová, Z. - Piorecký, Karel
Technological imagination as a source of the culture of neural networks.
Ars Aeterna. Roč. 15, č. 2 (2023), s. 1-21. ISSN 1337-9291. E-ISSN 2450-8497
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) Akademická prémie - Praemium Academiae
Research Infrastructure: CLB III - 90243
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : artificial neural networks * culture * technological imagination
OECD category: Literary theory
Method of publishing: Open access
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/aa-2023-0007

The study represents a partial output of research on the culture of artificial neural networks, as the authors call the cultural complex, in which a number of different actants participate (technologies, their users, results of the generation process, their recipients, media, etc.) and which is constituted by language games that have a performative function. The aim of this study is to conduct a media-archaeological insight into the imaginative layer of these language games and to point out that one of the sources of neural network culture is precisely the deeply historically anchored technological imagination. The genealogy of this imagination is traced in the study from its ancient origins to the 1950s, when the idea of the artificial mind was transformed into a scientific theorem and founded the research field of artificial intelligence. In this way, the paper draws attention to the fact that when we think and talk about artificial intelligence, we are talking about a set of imaginations that should not be confused with reality, but rather treated as technological fictions.
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