ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A DISCOURSE OF DIGITAL SOCIETY SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND SELF-ORGANIZATION

Abstract

In the framework of interdisciplinary approach the article considers the philosophical background and evolution of the discourse on artificial intelligence from the viewpoint of its influence on self-awareness, meanings and institutional architecture of post-industrial information (digital) society. The author gives the definition of intelligence as a property of a self-learning information system, which makes it possible to interpret the environment data in a symbolic form and interactively generate communication languages, answers to challenges, meanings and probabilistic models of purposeful action on this basis. The paper reveals peculiarities of nature, genesis and evolution of human intelligence as a sociocultural information system, operating today in the digital reality and electronic culture, as well as "artificial intelligence" as a new technological format for the functioning of social consciousness and knowledge generation. The author states the imperative nature of the formation, with a view to sustainable and dynamic development, of the institutional environment of the network society, adequate to the electronic culture, modern technologies of information generation and processing as an intersystem communication.