Peter’s Blog

Games Without Frontiers: Going Gunning With My Imaginary Friends

Videogames, in effect, are beyond Turing. As Simon Bart, a sociologist who studies videogames at Concordia University in Montreal, put it in a recent paper: “The solo game is posthumanistically social.” It’s about the pleasures of hanging out with machines even when you’re aware they’re merely machines.

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, gaming, socializing

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