This book explores various aspects and limitations of learning algorithms and their implications regarding suffering.
Even frustration is fundamentally an error signal that the system uses for learning. While AI uses machine learning, humans and animals adapt by a combination of evolutionary mechanisms and ordinary learning. Fundamental in such modelling is the idea of learning, or adaptation to the environment. In particular, such limitations imply that an agent acting in the real world must cope with uncontrollability, unpredictability, and uncertainty, which all lead to frustration. Frustration is inevitable because of the overwhelming complexity of the world, limited computational resources, and scarcity of good data. Frustration means the failure of an agent (whether AI or human) to achieve a goal or a reward it wanted or expected. The book starts with the assumption that suffering is mainly caused by frustration. This book intends to make the theory accessible to a relatively general audience, requiring only some relevant scientific background. Both humans and sophisticated AI agents process information about the world in order to achieve goals and obtain rewards, which is why AI can be used as a model of the human brain and mind. This book uses the modern theory of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand human suffering or mental pain.
#FIRE OF DESIRE BY THE ANIMATIONIST OFFLINE#
Key words: Consumer Society, Consumer Behavior, Generation X, Generation Y, New Generation Consumer, Online Shopping, Offline Shopping In this context, an important finding is Generation Y's preference to shop online more than Generation X and with hedonic values in mind, while they do so. Performed with this objective in mind, the scope of this study included the elaboration of relevant concepts through an academic literature review and the usage of in-depth interviews and questionnaires, in order to investigate said matter in Turkey, which yielded comprehensive data. In this framework, this study attempts to reveal the similar and different approaches of Generations X and Y regarding this topic, by evaluating the offline/online shopping practices and buying behaviors of both generations, from the perspective of the consumption society. These changes have deeply influenced the shopping practices of Generations X and Y, also called the new generation consumers, as well as their buying behaviors. The following generation, Generation Y, on the other hand, started to exist as consumers in a time, when digital breakthroughs were witnessed in the society and consumption manifested itself in all areas of life. Affected by these conjectural conditions of Turkey, Generation X was stuck between the old and the new and became the first consumers of the Turkish consumption culture.
Especially the neo-liberal policies in Turkey, executed in the 1980s, the globalization process and technological developments brought a consumption-oriented social mentality into the forefront, requiring the emergence of a new type of consumer. One of the principal activities, ensuring the functioning of the existing system and its continuity in today's capitalist societies, is consumption.
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