Post-structuralism in Artificial Intelligence research

February 15, 2020

Example of structuralism: CNN, RNN and graph-nets.

Structure

Whole-Part relationship

What is structuralism.

Ferdinand de Saussure signifier/signified Wittgenstein Language Games Lacan

Wittgenstein

Heidegger

Structuralism and linguistics

Post-structuralism

Examples

Firth and distributed semantics

Causality and structure

References:

• Machine learning: A structuralist discipline? https://philpapers.org/rec/BRUMLA-3
• Artificial Intelligence and Semantics through the Prism of Structural, Post-Structural and Transcendental Approaches. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26975762
• Cybernetics in a post-structuralist landscape http://littlepig.org.uk/texts/cybernetics.htm
• Foucault and technology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07341512.2013.780351