OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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SI tratta di un libro scritto bene e che affronta con precisione il tema della Intelligenza Artificiale. Molto utile per chi deve capire questa rivoluzione epocale.

This is a useful overview of the current state of artificial intelligence. The author has clearly been swimming in these waters during his academic studies and professional career. I came away with the sense that his thoughts and observations were based on close personal experience and careful analysis. If the area interests you, I think that you'll find that Dr. Kaplan is an experienced guide. What are some of the major areas that the book examines? He examines the definition of artificial intelligence, considers its intellectual history and explores the frontiers of robotics, computer vision and speech recognition. As he looks at the philosophy of AI, he explains his position on whether computers can think, have free will, possess consciousness, and have feelings. He doesn't think they do and deems it unlikely that they will. The author also examines the effect of AI on law, human labor (basically jobs) and social equity. These issues currently affect much of our political discourse. Since I think that much of our society fails to appreciate the economic and social effects of technology, the book addresses matters that, in my opinion, need more of society's attention. The book looks at the possible future impact of AI. The author believes that the future impact of AI will likely mirror that of other technological advances; in other words, that with time AI will be viewed as simply another tool to be employed for good or ill. You should be aware that the book takes time examining philosophical issues such as can intelligence be defined or accurately measured (probably not in the author's view), what are free will and consciousness (difficult to define in humans and probably impossible to define in machines) and feelings (whether computers will ever have feelings is mostly a matter of a human's personal choice). Will artificially intelligent machines ever rule over us (probably not, but no one's 100% sure)? This reminded me of another book published by Oxford on Complexity which described emergent conditions such as one or a number of water molecules do not possess the condition that we call "wetness," but a lot of water molecules in one place are commonly described as "wet". Maybe if we get enough of these machines connected and operated under a range of algorithms, then humans may discover that, as a large number of water molecules are "wet," a large interconnection of computers suitably programmed may start to look "intelligent," whatever we may mean by that. Dr. Kaplan provides a broad and useful overview of artificial intelligence. If the topic interests you, I recommend it.

Täglich liest man punktuell über AI Themen. Oft aufgebauscht beim jeweiligen Themenschwerpunkt. In diesem Buch (etwas anspruchsvoller in der englischen Sprache) wird der Versuch unternommen, die aktuelle "Gesamtschau" über die sehr unterschiedlichen Themenbereiche zu präsentieren. Es ist nicht ganz so entmutigend wie in Bostroms "Superintelligence", auch wenn dem Autor ganz zum Schluss doch auch erhebliche Zweifel an den Auswirkungen der Entwicklung kommen.

Artificial Intelligence - What Everyone Needs to Know is a book everyone NEEDS TO READ! Well-structered, the book answers basically all questions there are to get a general understanding and even arouses an even bigger interest in this mind-blowing technology.