In “Network, Machine, Computation, Formula for the Future: Outlining the Contours of the Post-Cyber Digital Generation,” I discussed how people have been encouraged to think about the relationship between the exterior appearances of machines and human beings through several contemporary examples, including the defeat of the best human Go player in the world by Alpha Go, the Go-playing computer program based on machine learning; the autonomous responses to the host’s tease when attending Good Morning Britain by the AI humanoid robot, Sophia, who now has a Saudi Arabian citizenship; the robotic double of the Osaka University professor, Hiroshi Ishiguro, who created the robot based on his own image that amazed the world; and Erica, allegedly the most beautiful humanoid robot in the world.
Image: Obvious (collective), Protrait of Edmond Belamy, 70x70cm, 2018. (Source)