УДК 004.8
Modern research in the field of the sociology of artificial intelligence: basic approaches. Part 1
Natalia Р. Koptseva1
1 KROO «Commonwealth of Enlighteners of Krasnoyarsk».
orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-7991, nkoptseva@sfu-kras.ru
Abstract. In the first part of the scientific review, the basic approaches to sociological research of artificial intelligence are analyzed. The history of the emergence of the term «artificial intelligence» is considered, the dynamics of the formation of its sociological problems is analyzed. Based on the concept of Zheng Liu, who identifies three aspects of the analytical perspectives of artificial intelligence: scientific, technical and cultural, the characteristics of each of these aspects are given. In the first part, the greatest attention is paid to the scientific aspect of artificial intelligence and its sociological research. It is important to state the fact that in modern scientific and public discourse, artificial intelligence is identified with two of its methods — machine learning and deep learning. Of interest is also the absence of anthropomorphic semantic connotations in the English-language research literature of sociological research of artificial intelligence, in contrast to the Russian-speaking culture, where artificial intelligence and its problems are considered necessarily in the context of possible contradictions between man and machine.
Keywords: artificialintelligence, social research, research methods, new social reality, the «man-technology» system
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