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AA Cavia is a computer scientist, writer and researcher. His studio practice centers on speculative software, engaging with machine learning, algorithms, protocols and encodings. He is the author of Logiciel: Six Seminars on Computational Reason (2022).
In my account, computation is not reducible to a formal model or a machinic apparatus but is rather conceived as a way of explaining things, namely computational reason. I take computation to be essentially cognitive in character, distinguishing it from the general domain of what Gilbert Simondon once called “technical objects.”
AA Cavia, AA Cavia on Summoning Worlds
Today, computational philosopher AA Cavia argues that the nature of computation itself is changing in the age of deep learning. He notes a shift from the hard-coded symbolic logic of Cohen’s expert systems to deep learning’s subsymbolic computation—where knowledge is no longer binary or human-readable but instead operates through latent spaces.
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