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

by Matteo Pasquinelli

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788730062
• ISBN13: 9781788730068
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"