The Sociology of AI!
Cultural factors to think about.
THE question is basically: Whether machines can be truly intelligent or simply able to act as if they are intelligent!
The widespread use of AI technologies in a broad variety of social domains, ranging from education to security, from retail to healthcare, from transport to law enforcement.
Brings a new field of inquiry, which is “The Sociology of AI”.
It can be challenging to navigate the existing literature to find a point of entry into this field.
Distinctions have been made between strong or general and weak or narrow AI.
Whereas strong AI (AGI) is found in machines capable of performing any intellectual and cognitive tasks that a human can perform, weak AI can only accomplish tasks in a human-like way.
The commercialisation of AI in recent decades has seen the term “AI” enter the lexicon of citizens and scholars alike via a range of popular AI applications and subtechnologies, such as smart home assistants, virtual reality and facial recognition.
As a result AI has been discussed as a meta technology and analyzed in terms of its various sub technologies and applications.
