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Artifictional intelligence : against humanity's surrender to computers / Harry Collins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambidge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2018. Description: xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781509504114
  • 1509504117
  • 9781509504121
  • 1509504125
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Artifictional intelligence.DDC classification:
  • 006.301 23
LOC classification:
  • Q334.7 .C65 2018
Contents:
Computers in social life and the danger of the surrender -- Expertise and writing about AI : some reflections on the project -- Language and repair -- Humans, social contexts and bodies -- Six levels of artificial intelligence -- Deep learning : precedent-based, pattern-recognising computers -- Kurzweil's brain and the sociology of knowledge -- How humans learn what computers can't -- Two models of artificial intelligence and the way forward -- The editing test and other new versions of the Turing test.
Summary: Startling successes in machine intelligence using 'deep learning' have dramatically raised the stakes in the rise of AI. However, Harry Collins argues that it is still impossible to foresee a time when machines will be sufficiently embedded in society to be independent of human input or when we cannot distinguish between humans and computers--
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Located at Event Centre Non Fiction 006.301 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not For Loan a00679400

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Computers in social life and the danger of the surrender -- Expertise and writing about AI : some reflections on the project -- Language and repair -- Humans, social contexts and bodies -- Six levels of artificial intelligence -- Deep learning : precedent-based, pattern-recognising computers -- Kurzweil's brain and the sociology of knowledge -- How humans learn what computers can't -- Two models of artificial intelligence and the way forward -- The editing test and other new versions of the Turing test.

Startling successes in machine intelligence using 'deep learning' have dramatically raised the stakes in the rise of AI. However, Harry Collins argues that it is still impossible to foresee a time when machines will be sufficiently embedded in society to be independent of human input or when we cannot distinguish between humans and computers--

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