Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-347) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In our own image

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

911364564

Responsibility statement

George Zarkadakis

Sub title

savior or destroyer? : the history and future of artificial intelligence

Summary

"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."--JacketExploring 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

Table Of 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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