Human Entities 2024: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Eighth edition, 29 May 2024

Artificial Intelligence Design and the Logic of Social Cooperation
Matteo Pasquinelli
Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

A conversation around the book “The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence” with the author Matteo Pasquinelli.

What is AI? A dominant view describes it 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. Pasquinelli’s book The Eye of the Master 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 Babbage’s “calculating engines” of the industrial age as well as in the recent Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.

Matteo Pasquinelli
Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice where he is coordinating the ERC project AI MODELS.

http://matteopasquinelli.com
https://pric.unive.it/projects/ai-models/home
https://www.versobooks.com/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master

Credits
Organised by ⁠CADA⁠ in partnership with ⁠Lisbon Architecture Triennale ⁠and ⁠Faculty of Fine Arts⁠, University of Lisbon

Programmed by Jared Hawkey/Sofia Oliveira with guest
programmers: Andrea Pavoni, Justin Jaeckle, Lavínia Pereira and Olivia Bina.

Funded by: República Portuguesa – Cultura / ⁠Direção-Geral das Artes⁠
Support: ⁠Câmara Municipal de Lisboa⁠; Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – ⁠NOVA LINCS⁠; Instituto Ciências Sociais, ⁠Urban Transitions Hub⁠, Universidade de Lisboa; ⁠DINAMIA’CET⁠ (ISCTE-IUL) and ⁠Faculdade Belas Artes⁠,
Universidade de Lisboa, Departamentos de Design de Comunicação e Arte Multimédia
Design: ⁠Pedro Loureiro⁠
Photography: ⁠Joana Linda⁠
Sound: ⁠Diogo Melo⁠