🧵 A fourth passage resulting from this takes into account connectionist formations of practices, media, and data that contribute to the practical generalization of (initially mostly specialized) AI applications in certain constellations—and in others rather not. /4
🧵 A fifth passage theorizes the plural practices of testing that make AI publicly available, i.e., marketable, and at the same time habitualize its use. /5
🧵 A sixth passage reveals neocolonial data economies and geopolitics that extract, automate, and industrialize human semiotic resources and—crucially for the future of media and cultural studies— /6
🧵 The seventh passage considers the transformation of all media through their digitization as statistical/stochastical AI. /7
🧵 For to the extent that the analysis and generation of language, texts, numbers, images, and sounds is based on layers of neural networks, all media—including film and computer code—potentially become statistically operationalized, stochastically-driven data-intensive networks. /end