Automated Patterns of Culture

The book, entitled Automated Patterns of Culture: Machine learning and Culture [APOC], represents a unique contribution to the interdisciplinary exploration of patterns, offering an insightful engagement of the evolving process of pattern recognition in AI technologies with philosophical and media theories. The work not only expands on contemporary scholarship but also provides a provocative and profound dialogue with them. APOC navigates in a completely novel way the complexities of patterns with precision by underlying their evolution at different scales (as found in nature (ancestrality), mediated by humans and technics (history), and mediated and produced between technologies themselves (hyperhistory). It not only clarifies the historical development of pattern recognition techniques but also provides critical reflections that illuminate the current challenges and ethical as well as psycho-social considerations within the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.