3 In the tradition of science, machine learning is just a Nooscope, an instrument to see and navigate the space of knowledge (from the Greek skopein ‘to examine, look’ and noos ‘knowledge’).īorrowing the idea from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Nooscope diagram applies the analogy of optical media to the structure of all machine learning apparatuses. In the history of science and technology, this is no news: it has already been pursued by optical instruments throughout the histories of astronomy and medicine. Rather than evoking legends of alien cognition, it is more reasonable to consider machine learning as an instrument of knowledge magnification that helps to perceive features, patterns, and correlations through vast spaces of data beyond human reach.

The purpose of the Nooscope map is to secularize AI from the ideological status of ‘intelligent machine’ to one of knowledge instrument. 2 This is unsurprising, since machine learning algorithms are the most powerful algorithms for information compression. The modern project to mechanise human reason has clearly mutated, in the 21 st century, into a corporate regime of knowledge extractivism and epistemic colonialism. In the expression ‘artificial intelligence’ the adjective ‘artificial’ carries the myth of the technology’s autonomy: it hints to caricatural ‘alien minds’ that self-reproduce in silico but, actually, mystifies two processes of proper alienation: the growing geopolitical autonomy of hi-tech companies and the invisibilization of workers’ autonomy worldwide. First, as a technical definition of intelligence and, second, as a political form that would be autonomous from society and the human. Its main purpose is to challenge the mystifications of artificial intelligence. Similarly, this map is a manifesto - of AI dissidents. Any map is a partial perspective, a way to provoke debate. The Nooscope is a cartography of the limits of artificial intelligence, intended as a provocation to both computer science and the humanities. Some enlightenment regarding the project to mechanise reason.

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