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In our own image : savior or destroyer? : the history and future of artificial intelligence / George Zarkadakis.
Author
Zarkadakēs, Giōrgos, 1964-
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Language
English
Εdition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Published/Created
New York, NY : Pegasus Books LLC, [2015]
©2015
Description
xxi, 362 pages ; 24 cm
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Engineering Library - Stacks
Q335 .Z37 2016
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Artificial intelligence
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Social aspects
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Computers and civilization
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Artificial intelligence
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Machine theory
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Human-computer interaction
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Summary note
"Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationships--our ties with artificial intelligence, or AI. He traces AI's origins in ancient myth, through literary classics like Frankenstein to today's sci-fi blockbusters, arguing that a fascination with AI is hardwired into the human psyche. The narrative delves into AI's history, technology, and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness, and finally--perhaps most tellingly--what AI reveals about us as human beings. In Our Own Image argues that we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution--as science fiction becomes science fact, the world is poised to enter the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Ultimately, as Zarkadakis observes, the fate of AI has profound implications for the future of science and humanity itself."--Jacket.
Exploring the history and future, as well as the societal and ethical implications, of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the author, who has a PhD in AI, explains its history, technology and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and conscious; and what AI reveals about us human beings.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-347) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Dreaming of electric sheep. The birth of the modern mind
Life in the bush of ghosts
The mechanical Turk
Loving the alien
Prometheus unbound
The return of the gods
Part II. The mind problem. A blueprint for a universe
Minds without bodies
La Résistance
Peering into the mind
The cybernetic brain
Part III. Ada in Wonderland. 'All Cretans are liars'
The program
From Bletchley Park to Google campus
Machines that think
Darwin at the edge of chaos
Epilogue : the future of humanity
Timeline : a brief history of artificial intelligence.
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ISBN
9781605989648 ((hardback))
1605989649 ((hardback))
9781681773537 ((pbk.))
1681773538 ((pbk.))
OCLC
911364564
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