Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity's Surrender to Computers

ISBN-13: 9781509504121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Harry (Cardiff University) Collins

Opis

For 70 years we have been arguing about whether computers will ever equal us in intelligence. Some gurus fear the Singularity , when computers will be so intelligent that they will enslave us if we are lucky. But a greater danger is that we will enslave ourselves to stupid computers: the Surrender .

Spis treści

• Chapter 1. Computers in Social Life and the Danger of the Surrender
• Chapter 2. Expertise and Writing about AI: Some Reflections on the Project
• Chapter 3. Language and Repair
• Chapter 4. Humans, Social Contexts and Bodies
• Chapter 5. Six Levels of Artificial Intelligence
• Chapter 6. Deep Learning: Precedent–Based, Pattern–Recognising Computers
• Chapter 7. Kurzweil s Brain and the Sociology of Knowledge
• Chapter 8. How Humans Learn What Computers Can t
• Chapter 9. Two Models of Artificial Intelligence and the Way Forward
• Chapter 10. The Editing Test and Other New Versions of the Turing Test
• Appendix 1: How the Internet Works Today
• Appendix 2: Little Dogs

O autorze

Harry Collins is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University