Index

FOREWORD BY BILL SHERMAN 3

INTRODUCTION BY K ALLADO-MCDOWELL AND BEN VICKERS 9

SECTION 1: MODELS 29 

TEXTS
37 On Exactitude in Science BY JORGE LUIS BORGES 
40 Making Kin with the Machines BY JASON EDWARD LEWIS, NOELANI ARISTA, ARCHER PECHAWIS AND SUZANNE KITE
53 Designing for Intelligence BY YUK HUI AND RAMON AMARO, MODERATED BY RANA DASGUPTA
75 Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence BY NORA N. KHAN
91 Synthetic Gardens: Another Model for Al and Design BY BENJAMIN H. BRATTON
112 Art in the Age of Machine Intelligence BY BLAISE AGUERA Y ARCAS

ARTIST PLATES
122 HEXEN 2.0/Tarot/Three of Chalices - The Astrolabe BY SUZANNE TREISTER
123 BIG LIGHT BY FEDERICO DIAZ
124 The Allegory of the Cave BY PAUL LAFFOLEY
125 The Teachings of Buddhism, No 3d, Series II BY HILMA AF KLINT
126 Cosmic Egg, Vision Three of Scivias BY HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
127 Half Cloud Half Plain, Algorithms after Cozens, Plate 20 BY LUCY SIYAO LIU
128 Interaction of Environmental Ecosystems and Human Systems BY BRANKO PETROVIC 

SECTION 2: PREDICTION 129

TEXTS 
138 A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition BY HITO STEYERL 
152 Machine Learning, Surveillance and the Politics of Visibility BY RAMON AMARO
161 When Al Prophecy Fails BY DR BETH SINGLER 
166 INTELLIGENTI PAUCA: Prediction and Artificial Intelligence BY FEDERICO CAMPAGNA 
177 The Nine Billion Names of God BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE
191 Extract from Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners BY GPT-2 

ARTIST PLATES
194 Work No. 020 BY EMMA KUNZ 
195 Microimage A-01 to A-06 BY CASEY REAS 
196 Waterfall BY DEEPDREAM 
197 Homage to Marcel Duchamp: Aura (Blue Boy) BY SUSAN HILLER
198 Ancient Writing BY ANNI ALBERS 
199 Minakata Mandala BY JENNA SUTELA 
200 Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 1, Frontispiece BY WILLIAM BLAKE 

SECTION 3: MIND 201

TEXTS
208 The Arborescent Mind: The Intelligence of an Inverted Tree BY MATTED PASQUINELLI
216 Other Minds: Beliefs About, In and of Artificial Intelligence BY NOAH RAFORD 
233 Plasticity, Intelligence and Mind HANS ULRICH OBRIST INTERVIEWS CATHERINE MALABOU 
245 The Circular Ruins BY JORGE LUIS BORGES 
250 Futures Flowers BY NISHA RAMAYYA 
258 The Upanishads TRANSLATED BY EKNATH EASWARAN 

ARTIST PLATES
266 Los Grados Del Curandero BY PABLO AMARINGO
267 UUmwelt BY PIERRE HUYGHE
268 The Pyramidal Neuron BY SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL
269 Window Opening Onto Eternity BY C. G. JUNG
270 Melting Memories, Engram BY REFIK ANADOL
271 BOB's UMWELT BY IAN CHENG
272 Scylla BY ITHELL COLQUHOUN

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 274

BIOGRAPHIES 276

IMAGE CAPTIONS 286

CREDITS 302