What people call “AI” is actually a long historical process of crystallizing collective behavior, personal data, and individual labor into privatized algorithms

What people call “AI” is actually a long historical process of crystallizing collective behavior, personal data, and individual labor into privatized algorithms that are used for the automation of complex tasks: from driving to translation, from object recognition to music composition. Just as much as the machines of the industrial age grew out of experimentation, know-how, and the labor of skilled workers, engineers, and craftsmen, the statistical models of AI grow out of the data produced by collective intelligence. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/101/273221/three-thousand-years-of-algorithmic-rituals-the-emergence-of-ai-from-the-computation-of-space/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/101/273221/three-thousand-yea... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249150