TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pasquinelli, Matteo
TI  - The Eye of the master: : a social history of artificial intelligence 
SN  - 9781788730068
U1  - 338.064 PAS 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Automation-Social aspects-History
KW  - Machinery in the workplace-Social aspects-History
KW  - Artificial intelligence-Social aspects-History
KW  - Employees-Effect of technological innovations on-History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -