In our own image : savior or destroyer? : the history and future 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 rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zarkadakēs, Giōrgos, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, [2016]
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
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Table of 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 Résistance ; 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.