The analogy of computing.
The digital machine is analogical by design: with it, we construct models of phenomena that by definition of that term are necessarily partial approximations. For that reason, we learn more by conceiving of them as analogues rather than imperfect copies. As the foofaraw over AI would make clear to a...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 242 - 258 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2024
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