"A social history that reveals the roots of AI in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction: 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.
