Whose Time Is It?

Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism, and Artificial Chronological Intelligence - The Contemporary Condition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Following the "emerging life adventures and experiences" of Sophia, a robot animated by blockchain and AI, to present a study in temporal automation.

In what way do the two technologies of blockchain and artificial intelligence actualize and, crucially, automatize the cognition of time? These kinds of machines are increasingly part of both our contemporary present and our prospective future, but how do we really define a present and a future? And more important, how do these machines themselves understand, know, and sense time? Can machines really think about the present and dream the future in an autonomous way? In order to unravel these questions, Whose Time Is It? follows the "emerging life adventures and experiences" of Sophia, a robot animated by blockchain and AI, to present a study in temporal automation.
 

Book information

ISBN: 9783956796081
Publisher: MIT Press
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 006.301
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 104
Weight: 106g
Height: 190mm
Width: 119mm
Spine width: 6mm