SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Knowledge Economy, Technological Determinism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Tonio Sadik

Document Summary

11/09/16 & 11/11/16 (13) artificial intelligence and the knowledge economy. To problematize our notion of artificial intelligence. To reassess the extent to which knowledge is at the core of our societal and the implications of this. The space odyssey (1968): to this day, we are still able to watch this movie and believe that the interaction between the humans and the computer (hal) is possible. Hal was self-aware which is the concept that this film played off of. In many cases, we were introduced to things that were on the margin of society which reflects that we have not yet seen it happen, but it is a possibility. In 1997, we were introduced to the computer deep blue which was developed by ibm and was programmed to play chess. This brought up the question of whether computers can become more intellectual than humans.