The In-Mixing of Machines: Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis
The In-Mixing of Machines: Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis
This chapter examines the “cybernetic subject” through the lens of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and his participation (along with others, such as Noam Chomsky) in a new discourse network inaugurated by the confluence of cybernetics, information theory, and automata theory. It concludes with a double view of the chess match between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue, which suggests both the power and limits of classic artificial intelligence.
Keywords: cybernetic subject, Jacques Lacan, information theory, automata theory, chess match, Gary Kasparov, Deep Blue, artificial intelligence
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