Automation and autonomy : labour, capital and machines in the artificial intelligence industry /: labour, capital and machines in the artificial intelligence industry. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Steinhoff.
• Authors: Steinhoff, James
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Automation, Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Your Means of Production Revolutions AI in the Real World Machinery and Marxists The Central Argument Computing Machinery Recursion What this Book is Not Chapter Outline2. Labour, Capital, Machine: Marxist Theory and Technology Introduction Political Economy Marx on Value and Labour Marx on Machines The Fragment on Machines Marxism(s) Soviet Marxism Western Marxism Labour Process Theory The New Reading of Marx Cybernetic Capitalism Conclusion3. Post-Operaismo and the New Autonomy of Immaterial Labour Introduction From Operaismo to Post-operaismo Post-operaismo Immaterial Labour Theory Human-Machine Hybridization Abstract Cooperation New Autonomy from Capital The Technological Argument for New Autonomy Conclusion 4. Industrializing Intelligence: A Political Economic History of the AI IndustryIntroduction The Historical Context The Advent of AI Research The AI Winter Expert Systems: The First Era of the AI Industry Strategic Computing: AI and the State Part I The Decline of Expert Systems The Rise of Machine Learning Deep Learning: The Second Era of the AI Industry Conclusion5. Machine Learning and Fixed Capital: The Contemporary AI Industry Introduction Charting the AI Industry AI Capital Composition AI Tech Giants AI Dinosaurs AI Startups AI Think Tanks National AI Strategies: AI and the State Part II AI Capital Concentration Open Source AI, Clouds, AI Chips Labour in the AI Industry Labour Composition: Race and Gender AI Labour Organization Conclusion6. A Dark Art: The Machine Learning Labour Process Introduction The Machine Learning Labour Process Stage 1: Data Processing Stage 2: Model Building Stage 3: Deployment The Commodity Form of AI Empirical Control AI as Automation The Automation of AI Work Automated Machine Learning Synthetic Automation Other Forms of Automation in Machine Learning Conclusion7.New Autonomy and Work in the AI Industry Introduction AI Work and Human-Machine Hybridization AI Work and Abstract Cooperation AI Work and New Autonomy Autonomy for What? Conclusion 8. Conclusion: Harry Braverman OverdriveIntroduction Theoretical Synthesis Automation on Steroids Optimism and Agency Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.4834; Automation -- Political aspects; Automation -- Economic aspects; Machine learning -- Political aspects; Machine learning -- Economic aspects; Artificial intelligence -- History; Capitalism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030716899
• Related ISBNs: 9783030716882
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