03091cam a2200349 i 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007301500190009001600180010902000310012703500170015804000740017504200080024905000220025710000410027924500980032026400400041826400110045830000460046950400510051550505380056652012910110465000520239565000570244765000540250465000640255894200080262295200960263099900150272610414232CaAEU20250312151721.0230511t20232023enka b 001 0 eng  a 2023020753 aGBC3F47402bnb7 a0211762242Uk a9781788730068q(paperback) aon1353949626 aDLCbengerdacDLCdOCLCFdUKMGBdYDXdPZXdOCLCOdSFBdVRAdPMCdUIU apcc00aHC79.A9bP37 2023 aPasquinelli, Matteo,eauthor.92490914aThe eye of the master b: a social history of artificial intelligence c/ Matteo Pasquinelli. 1aLondon ;aNew York :bVerso,c2023. 4c©2023 aviii, 264 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction: AI as Division of Labour — The Material Tools of Algorithmic Thinking — Part I: The Industrial Age — Babbage and the Mechanisation of Mental Labour — The Machinery Question — The Origins of Marx's General Intellect — The Abstraction of Labour — Part II: The Information Age — The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind — The Automation of Pattern Recognition — Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism — The Invention of the Perceptron — Conclusion: The Automation of General Intelligence aA 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.cProvided by publisher. 0aTECHNOLOGY AutomationxSocial aspectsxHistory. 0aMachinery in the workplacexSocial aspectsxHistory. 0aArtificial IntelligencexSocial aspectsxHistory. 0aEmployeesxEffect of technological innovations onxHistory. 2lcc 00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-03-12l0oHC79.A9 PASpB07507r2025-03-12t1w2025-03-12y1 c4538d4538