The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Pasquinelli, Matteo
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Pasquinelli, Matteo

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories...
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Author: Matteo Pasquinelli
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Pasquinelli, Matteo

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

$37.73
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Pasquinelli, Matteo

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

$37.73
Author: Matteo Pasquinelli
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks.

The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance.

The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or "sentient", as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation.

The Eye of the Master urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the "mystery" of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.

Author: Matteo Pasquinelli
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781788730068

About the Author
Matteo Pasquinelli is associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, amongst other journals.
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