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In our own image : savior or destroyer? : the history and future of artificial intelligence / George Zarkadakis.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2016Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: xxi, 362 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781605989648
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • Q335.4 .Z37 2016
Contents:
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 -- The mind problem. A blueprint for a universe ; Minds without bodies ; La Resistance ; Peering into the mind ; The cybernetic brain -- 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.
Summary: 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.

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 -- The mind problem. A blueprint for a universe ; Minds without bodies ; La Resistance ; Peering into the mind ; The cybernetic brain -- 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.

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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