The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication
According to Clifford Geertz, the purpose of anthropology is not to explain culture but to explicate it. That should cause us to rethink our relationship with machine learning. It is, we contend, perfectly possible that machine learning algorithms, which are unable to explain, and could even be unex...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2022-01-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211069891 |