Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Algorithmic unconscious: why psychoanalysis helps in understanding AI

An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.

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