ABSTRACT

Artificial intelligence research is seldom conducted ethnographically. Nevertheless, the field itself has a distinctive culture – an engineering imaginary within which ‘general intelligence’ is considered to be a phenomenon that can be both defined and tested by reference to some universal (probably mathematical) standard. This paper describes a research agenda that sets out to question those assumptions, through a programme of ethnographic field work, collaborating with computer scientists and educators in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

中文翻译：

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人种学人工智能

摘要

很少在人种学上进行人工智能研究。然而，该领域本身具有独特的文化-一种工程想象，其中“通用情报”被认为是一种现象，可以通过参考一些通用的（可能是数学的）标准来定义和检验。本文介绍了一项研究议程，该议程通过民族志实地调查计划与撒哈拉以南非洲多个国家的计算机科学家和教育工作者合作，提出质疑这些假设的方法。