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"The Swirling Swarm of Driverless Cars Neither Loves You Nor Hates You"
Philosophical Problems in Synthetic Sensing and Sensation at Urban Scale
Benjamin H. Bratton
LA Elective. Spring 2017
This seminar will trace paths design research drawn from triangulations of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and machine sensing. Why so? For ourselves, we develop virtual environments as a form of mass media native to a post-truth economy; for our cities, we outfit their surfaces with sensory media that situate the evolution of artificial intelligences as a landscape-scale phenomenon Where do synthetic sensation and machine sensing intersect?
In the laboratories, moving from top-down to bottom-up AI, shifts the focus from notions of "intelligence" as a formal symbolic syntax to intelligence as a specifically embodied relation to specific worlds and models. Heuristic knowledge of habitats is understood as inseparable from how an A.I. manipulates a situated problem space. In E