Their formulation “letting-know by analogy and knowing-how by analogy”, parses an important difference in meme-transfer between the inception of a new imaginary and the conveyance of pedagogical strategies that accomplish its realization.
C…Since the early 2010s, the increasing use of figurative language has spread to terms associated with digital technology, including: “big data,” “virus,” “platform,” “cloud computing,” “the new black gold” and “ecosystem.” As an extension of…
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Ricci's distinction between "letting-know by analogy" and "knowing-how by analogy" offers the course a framework for understanding how new technological imaginaries propagate differently than the practical skills needed to realize them—a crucial distinction when examining how AI and machine learning enter cultural discourse. The readings invoke this parsing to separate the memetic dissemination of concepts (how we come to *imagine* AI) from the pedagogical transfer of methods (how we learn to *build* it), suggesting that the figurative language surrounding digital technology operates in the first register while actual technical competence requires the second.
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