On the path to AI : Law's prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age /

This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two 'revolutions' in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Grant, Thomas D. (Author), Wischik, Damon J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Edition:	1st ed. 2020.
Subjects:	Technology-Sociological aspects. Human geography. Mass media. Law. Artificial intelligence. Science and Technology Studies. Human Geography. IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property. Artificial Intelligence. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Starting with logic
CHAPTER 1: Two Revolutions
CHAPTER 2: Getting past logic
CHAPTER 3: Experience and data as input
CHAPTER 4: Finding patterns as the path from input to output
CHAPTER 5: Output as prophecy
CHAPTER 6: Explanations of machine learning
CHAPTER 7: Juries and other reliable predictors
CHAPTER 8: Poisonous datasets, poisonous trees
CHAPTER 9: From Holmes to AlphaGo
CHAPTER 10:Conclusion
EPILOGUE: Lessons in two directions.