把数据中心比作AI的肉体，揭示其背后的资本与人类欲望逻辑。
The Many-Body Problem of the Data Centre
- 将数据中心类比为具身化的智能体，提出其作为资本劳动载体的有机性。
- 指出数据源于人类欲望，但数据中心本身无欲无求，形成矛盾张力。
- 适合关注技术政治、数字资本主义的读者，启发对AI本质的哲学反思。
现代人工智能常被视作因缺乏实体而受限，我们则认为数据中心正是许多场景下AI的‘身体’。同时，数据中心作为资本的劳动载体，若以生物学视角审视，具备惊人的有机特性。本文阐明这一有机类比，并指出由数据中心作为非唯一、普遍存在的具身形式所引发的多体问题。数据的存取与计算紧密关联于人类欲望，数据中心虽承载这些欲望的痕迹，却自身无欲无求。这种有机类比开始裂痕，但资本并不在意。自动化系统与人类劳动在市场中被同等地定价。我们主张，通过人工智能的定价机制，资本最清晰地提炼出智力的价值，并使其跨越‘有机体’与‘机械’的界限进行比较。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modern Artificial Intelligence is often framed as limited by its own disembodiment, as if giving it a body would unlock its true potential. We argue to the contrary that it is the Data Centre that is, in many cases, the body of the AI. At the same time, the Data Centre is part of the labouring body of Capital and possesses staggering organismic qualities when seen through a biological lens. We elucidate the organic analogy and identify the many-body problem that stems from the Data Centre being a non-unique, universal form of embodiment. We identify the intimate connection between computation and human desires in how the Data Centre archives, serves, and computes on data born to the desires of humans. Strikingly, while the Data Centre echoes the ghosts of human desires, it acts without desire of its own. The organismic analogy begins to split at its seams, but Capital does not care. Automata and human labour are priced into the market much the same. We argue that through the pricing of artificial intelligence Capital distils most clearly the value of intelligence and allows for its comparison across the organism - mechanism divide.
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