The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AI
This article explores the change in calculation methods induced by deep learning techniques. While more traditional statical methods are based on well instituted categories to measure the social world, these categories are today denounced as a set of hardened and abstract conventions that are incapa...
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| description | This article explores the change in calculation methods induced by deep learning techniques. While more traditional statical methods are based on well instituted categories to measure the social world, these categories are today denounced as a set of hardened and abstract conventions that are incapable of conveying the complexification of social life and the singularities of individuals. Today AI models try to overcome some criticism raised by rigid social categories by combining a "spatial and temporal expansion" of the data space, producing a global transformation of the calculation methods. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a20ece71324f486a9d606207fe73f7532023-03-16T10:01:15ZengUniversity of BolognaSociologica1971-88532023-03-0116351610.6092/issn.1971-8853/1593114278The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AIJean-Marie John-Mathews0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-1222Dominique Cardon1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-9611Sciences Po; Université Paris-SaclaySciences Po; Université Paris EstThis article explores the change in calculation methods induced by deep learning techniques. While more traditional statical methods are based on well instituted categories to measure the social world, these categories are today denounced as a set of hardened and abstract conventions that are incapable of conveying the complexification of social life and the singularities of individuals. Today AI models try to overcome some criticism raised by rigid social categories by combining a "spatial and temporal expansion" of the data space, producing a global transformation of the calculation methods.https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/15931aimachine learningsocial categories |
| spellingShingle | Jean-Marie John-Mathews Dominique Cardon The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AI Sociologica ai machine learning social categories |
| title | The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AI |
| title_full | The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AI |
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| title_short | The Crisis of Social Categories in the Age of AI |
| title_sort | crisis of social categories in the age of ai |
| topic | ai machine learning social categories |
| url | https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/15931 |
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