Do you consider computers to possess intelligence? Why or why not? Are you worried about how your career plans might be affected by machine learning and AI? What do you think it means for global societies to be shifting into a 'post-Internet' age? What's gained and lost as we begin to see the Internet in terms of being some kind of thinking entity?

How does your answers to the above questions relate to the study of human communication from prehistory to the digital age, emphasizing the social implications of technological change, past and present?

References

• Greenfield, Adam. "Machine Learning" in Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. London ; New York: Verso Books, 2017.
• Vincent, James. "The Invention of AI 'Gaydar' Could Be the Start of Something Much Worse." The Verge, September 21, 2017.
• Cramer, Florian. "What is 'Post-Digital'?", in Berry, D., and M. Dieter, eds. Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation And Design. 2015 edition. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015