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The Cultural History of Artificial Intelligence|Martin Wille

The Cultural History of Artificial Intelligence : From the Soot Stains of the Stone Age to the Servers of the Cloud

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Artificial Intelligence did not begin in Silicon Valley. It began in a cave 40,000 years ago - when a nameless human pressed a hand against a rock wall and blew ochre over it. What emerged was more than an image: it was the first abstraction, the first algorithm of thought. From that moment onward, Martin Wille traces a compelling line through the entirety of human history - from the clay tablets of Sumer and the pyramids of Giza, through the Tower of Babel, Greek Techne, and the Gothic cathedrals, all the way to Leibniz's binary code, Darwin's tree of evolution, Ada Lovelace's first program, and John von Neumann's game theory.
This book is not a technical introduction to AI. It is a cultural history - a narrative about how humanity has spent millennia trying to order, compute, and control the world. And how this ancient dream has found its most powerful form today in the server farms of the cloud.
With Heidegger's philosophy of the "Gestell" (enframing) as a guiding thread, Wille weaves together archaeology, philosophy, literature, and the history of technology into a panorama that casts the present of AI in an entirely new light.
For everyone who wants to understand where AI truly comes from - and where it might lead us.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798255873913
  • ISBN-10: 9798255873913
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: April 2026
  • Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.18 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
  • Page Count: 86

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