A "social" history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: AI as Division of Labour
1 The Material Tools of Algorithmic Thinking
Part I
THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
2 Babbage and the Mechanisation of Mental Labour
3 The Machinery Question
4 The Origins of Marx’s General Intellect
5 The Abstraction of Labour
Part II
THE INFORMATION AGE
6 The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind
7 The Automation of Pattern Recognition
8 Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism
9 Th e Invention of the Perceptron
Conclusion: The Automation of General Intelligence