Index

Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Introduction: AI as Division of Labour 1
1 The Material Tools of Algorithmic Thinking 23

Part I
THE INDUSTRIAL AGE 49
2 Babbage and the Mechanisation of Mental Labour 51
3 The Machinery Question 77
4 The Origins of Marx’s General Intellect 95
5 The Abstraction of Labour 121

Part II
THE INFORMATION AGE 131
6 The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind 133
7 The Automation of Pattern Recognition 161
8 Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism 182
9 The Invention of the Perceptron 205

Conclusion: The Automation of General Intelligence” 237

Acknowledgements 254
Index 257