Geographies of AI

摘要

Geography offers a method to provide certitude to how AI and robotics might manifest in societies. AI appears to defy conventional labour borders, as its proliferation in the Kenyan outsourcing centres where humans manually error-correct Google’s self-driving cars demonstrates. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, four elements compose the current vision of AI: autonomous vehicles and robotics, natural language processing, computer vision, and language and learning. The study of the spatial distribution and effects of transport modalities and infrastructure, and the movement of people and goods through transport systems, is a chief focus of transport geography. Human geographical inquiry foregrounds the extant ethical issues with driverless vehicles that engineering and computer science neglects. The release and success of the 2017 Quantum Physics for Babies book looks set to herald a whole new generation to probe the mysteries of the future of computing.