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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Main Authors: Anders Kristian Munk, Asger Gehrt Olesen, Mathieu Jacomy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211069891