The paradigm of connectionist AI did not win out over symbolic AI because the former is ‘smarter’ or better able to mimic brain structures, but rather because inductive and statistical algorithms are more efficient at capturing the logic of social cooperation than deductive ones. By tracing the evolution from linear to self-organising information, the history of data analytics, machine learning, and AI can begin to be seen in perspective as a grand process of self-organisation within the technosphere to follow the transformation of the social order.
