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- Title
Go Nomadism, Evolutionary Computation and Natural Selection: A Reply to Jay Lampert.
- Authors
Bennett, Michael
- Abstract
In response to a 2023 article by Jay Lampert in Deleuze and Guattari Studies, this paper develops the question of what Deleuze and Guattari might make of AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence developed by Google which defeated one of the top human Go players in 2016. It approaches the question in a way that supplements and complements Lampert's analysis, by noting the well-worn analogy between computer programming and evolutionary biology and then cross-referencing it with Deleuze and Guattari's attitude towards the latter in A Thousand Plateaus. The results reinforce Lampert's conclusion that AlphaGo is not 'nomadic', but they show that this is precisely because AlphaGo's algorithms are reminiscent of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection.
- Subjects
NATURAL selection; EVOLUTIONARY computation; DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; GOOGLE Inc.; COMPUTER programming; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; NOMADS; EVOLUTIONARY theories; ANALOGY
- Publication
Deleuze & Guattari Studies, 2024, Vol 18, Issue 2, p277
- ISSN
2398-9777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/dlgs.2024.0554