Today's event!
Matteo Pasquinelli on "A Social History of Artificial Intelligence”
Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence”
Matteo Pasquinelli in conversation with Audrey Borowski and Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
A dominant view describes AI 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. Matteo Pasquinelli’s 2023 book, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence 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 Charles Babbage’s “calculating engines” of the industrial age as well as in the recent deep neural networks for face recognition. In this event, Pasquinelli will discuss his reading of the “labour theory of automation” in the age of AI. You can find out more and register here.
