At the Edge of AI : Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations / LibuSe Hannah Veprek.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: "We're Doing Something Completely New" -- 2 Approaching Human Computation‐Based Citizen Science Analytically -- Crowdsourcing and Crowdworking -- Citizen Science (Games) and the Entanglements of Play, Work, and Science -- Sociotechnical Systems and the Study of Algorithms, Computer Code, and Artificial Intelligence -- Infrastructures and Infrastructuring -- A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Emerging Hybrid Systems -- From Assemblages to Assemblage Thinking -- Human-Technology Relations -- Ethical Projects, Imaginaries, and the Care for Our Hybrid Modes of Being -- Intraversions in Human-Technology Relations -- 3 Methodology: Encountering Human Computation Ethnographically -- Praxiographically Inspired Co‑Laborative Ethnography -- Constructivist Grounded Theory -- Doing Research On, With, and Among Researchers and Developers -- A Toolkit of Methods for Emerging Hybrid Systems -- Participant Observation -- Qualitative Interviews -- Experimental Approaches to Infrastructures, Code, and Digital Chat Data -- 4 Envisioning and Designing the Future -- Human‐In‐The‐Loop Imaginaries -- Human Computation as a Counter‐Imaginary to Artificial General Intelligence -- Shared Paradigms -- The Imagined Human in the Loop -- Imagining Humans as Players and the Loop as a Game -- Human-Technology Conversations of the Future -- Crowds in the Loop -- Humans in the Loop in a Future Thinking Economy -- Weaving Together the Imaginaries -- Imagining as Practice: Infrastructuring and Experimentation -- Infrastructuring Toward "Sustainable Human Computation" -- Puppies in Stall Catchers: Everyday Infrastructuring -- Between Counter‐Imaginary and Infrastructuring -- 5 Multiple Meanings and Everyday Negotiations: Play/Science Entanglements -- A Snapshot of Foldit.

A Snapshot of Stall Catchers -- Contributing to Cope With Everyday Life -- Personal Connections -- Meaningful Contributions -- A Phenomenon Between Play and Science -- Mutual Supportive Science/Play Entanglements -- Out‐Of‐The‐Box Thinking -- Making a "Boring" Task Enjoyable and Keeping the Motivation Up -- Legitimizing Play -- Play/Science Frictions -- A "Balancing Act" -- Goals of Science versus Goals of Game -- Uncertainty and Unpredictability of Science versus the Rigidity of Game -- Hierarchies Between Play and Science -- "Success" Has Different Meanings for Game and Science -- Adaptations and Practices Beyond Design -- Ameliorating the Participant-Technological Performance -- Reading Data Differently and Playing Games in Games -- Exploring Boundaries -- Emerging Spaces in Play/Science Entanglements and Frictions -- 6 Intraversions: Human-Technology Relations in Flux -- Never Obsolete: Intraversions of Participant-Technology Relations in Foldit -- Foldit's Legend -- Introducing the Artificial Intelligence System AlphaFold in Foldit -- "First Use No Humans:" Intraversions of Participant-Technology Relations in Stall Catchers -- "The Machines Are Coming:" Artificial Intelligence Bots in Stall Catchers -- GAIA's Debut -- Three Bots in Stall Catchers -- Reconfigurations of Participant-Technology Relations -- Extending the Loop: Intraversions of Researcher-Technology Relations -- Getting Lost in the Brain -- Processing and Translating Data -- Machine Learning for Data Segmentation -- Automated Post‐Processing -- Data Curation: Manually Intervening and Editing -- Closing the Loop -- Reconfiguring Data, the Pipeline, and Researcher-Technology Relations -- Moving Forward in Concert -- Contingent, Imagined, and Emergent Intraversions -- 7 Building Trust in and With Human Computation -- Trust as an Analytical Concept -- Trust as a Sociomaterial Practice.

"We Have to Trust the Whole Citizen Science Stuff" -- Building Trust With Human Computation and Algorithmic Evaluation -- Trust the System, Trust Yourself -- The Question of Trust and Proprietary Software -- Distributed Trust -- 8 Conclusions -- Engaging at the Edge of Artificial Intelligence -- Beyond the Edge -- Glossary -- References.

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