It's Alive!

Author: Toby Walsh
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN: 9781863959438
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The development of Artificial Intelligence is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that thinking machines are already an indispensable part of our lives. Without them, Google couldn't answer your questions in a fraction of a second. Autonomous cars would exist only in science fiction. And your smartphone would be . . . just a phone. In countless ways, with every passing day, AI is shaping and reshaping our world. But where will AI technologies take us in the future? Will thinking machines destroy our jobs? Could their intelligence surpass our own? Could the rise of AI threaten the very existence of humanity? Leading researcher Toby Walsh takes us on a surprising and inspiring journey through the story of Artificial Intelligence - revealing how it is already transforming our societies, our economies and even ourselves - and makes ten fascinating predictions about what it will have achieved by the year 2050. 'A whirlwind tour through the history and the future of AI - and why it matters to all of us. A must-read.' - Sebastian Thrun, Stanford/Google/Udacity 'Toby Walsh's story of how artificial intelligence evolved from the dreams of Alan Turing to a powerful technological force today is exciting, insightful and incisive. Will his predictions about how AI will change life as we know it in the coming decades prove equally dead-on? I, for one, would not bet against him!' - Henry Kautz, past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester

It's Alive! (Dyslexic Edition)

Author: Toby Walsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781525254574
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that artificial intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google wouldn't find out whatever you need to know. Your smartphone would be ... just a phone. In countless ways AI has made the world what it is today. But where will AI technologies take us in the future? We know they will continue to change society, but how? Will AI destroy our jobs? Could it even pose an existential threat? What should we be doing now to prepare for the future? In this new book, Toby Walsh provides a fascinating survey of Artificial Intelligence for the general reader- where it came from, the state of the art today, and where it will take us tomorrow. His ten predictions of what AI will have achieved by 2050 will surprise you! Walsh discusses how AI will transform our societies, our economies and even ourselves, and what we can do about this.

2062

Author: Toby Walsh
Publisher: La Trobe University Press
ISBN: 9781760640514
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
What does a world of smart machines actually look like? AI expert Toby Walsh predicts the state of work, war, politics, economics, everyday life and death in the not-too-distant future, when we will live with machines as intelligent as us.

Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths

Author: Steven Shwartz
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1735424544
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
Are AI robots and computers really going to take over the world? Longtime artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and investor Steve Shwartz has grown frustrated with the fear-inducing hype around AI in popular culture and media. Yes, today’s AI systems are miracles of modern engineering, but no, humans do not have to fear robots seizing control or taking over all our jobs. In this exploration of the fascinating and ever-changing landscape of artificial intelligence, Dr. Shwartz explains how AI works in simple terms. After reading this captivating book, you will understand • the inner workings of today’s amazing AI technologies, including facial recognition, self-driving cars, machine translation, chatbots, deepfakes, and many others; • why today’s artificial intelligence technology cannot evolve into the AI of science fiction lore; • the crucial areas where we will need to adopt new laws and policies in order to counter threats to our safety and personal freedoms resulting from the use of AI. So although we don’t have to worry about evil robots rising to power and turning us into pets—and we probably never will—artificial intelligence is here to stay, and we must learn to separate fact from fiction and embrace how this amazing technology enhances our world.

Thinking Machines

Author: Luke Dormehl
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130587
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A fascinating look at Artificial Intelligence, from its humble Cold War beginnings to the dazzling future that is just around the corner. When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways, the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate. In Thinking Machines, technology journalist Luke Dormehl takes you through the history of AI and how it makes up the foundations of the machines that think for us today. Furthermore, Dormehl speculates on the incredible--and possibly terrifying--future that's much closer than many would imagine. This remarkable book will invite you to marvel at what now seems commonplace and to dream about a future in which the scope of humanity may need to broaden itself to include intelligent machines.

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Author: Erik J. Larson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674259920
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.” —John Horgan “If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.” —Peter Thiel Ever since Alan Turing, AI enthusiasts have equated artificial intelligence with human intelligence. A computer scientist working at the forefront of natural language processing, Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to reveal why this is a profound mistake. AI works on inductive reasoning, crunching data sets to predict outcomes. But humans don’t correlate data sets. We make conjectures, informed by context and experience. And we haven’t a clue how to program that kind of intuitive reasoning, which lies at the heart of common sense. Futurists insist AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted mind, but Larson shows how far we are from superintelligence—and what it would take to get there. “Larson worries that we’re making two mistakes at once, defining human intelligence down while overestimating what AI is likely to achieve...Another concern is learned passivity: our tendency to assume that AI will solve problems and our failure, as a result, to cultivate human ingenuity.” —David A. Shaywitz, Wall Street Journal “A convincing case that artificial general intelligence—machine-based intelligence that matches our own—is beyond the capacity of algorithmic machine learning because there is a mismatch between how humans and machines know what they know.” —Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books

Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and the Future of Humanity

Author: Nick Redfern
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578597420
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Will computers come to dominate man? Have films, books, and television foreshadowed the future of artificial intelligence? Will robots enhance or destroy our future? Will AI forever change us? You'll learn about the history and the pop-culture view of technology--as well as possible futures--in this one-of-a-kind book! Is technology running amok or is it serving as a helping hand? Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and the Future of Humanity puts a pop-culture and historic spin on some serious questions about mankind's future. An exhilarating and troubling read, it looks at whether robots are a menace or a boon to humanity. Its investigations include ... The history of robots constructed hundreds of years ago How movies informed the classic image of the robot--and what they got right and wrong Clones, modified humans, cyborgs, designer babies, and half-human robots The sentient internet The advancements in robotics starting in the 1960s Science fiction and science fact--and how science fiction foreshadowed the future Robots replacing people in the workplace The prospect of uploading our minds into computers to ensure immortality Robots becoming indistinguishable from humans Whether robots will rise up and cause humans to become extinct And much, much more. Exciting and worrisome, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and the Future of Humanity looks at what the past tells us about the future. With more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is nicely illustrated. It also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. Ponder the possibilities with this examination of robots of the past, present, and future!

Machines Behaving Badly: the Morality of AI

Author: Toby Walsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760643423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description

This Is My Robot

Author: Daniel M. Yurkovich
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Human-machine systems
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
This study explored the interactions of machine learning (ML) and serious gaming on trust in the context of a manned-unmanned team. While the government commits immense capital to develop autonomous systems for our warfighters, they often go unused due to skepticism of their performance and reasoning. Complexity and cost of the systems create an atmosphere that is prohibitive to daily training. These factors foster mistrust in valuable systems that could otherwise aid the warfighter. In our experiment, the influence of serious gaming and autonomous behavior development was field tested with 40 participants in a two-group dual-task paradigm design to measure choice, trust indicators, and secondary task performance (STP). In a serious game, the control group learned the capabilities of an autonomous ground vehicle (AGV), while the experimental group "trained" the behaviors of the AGV. The experimental group invested significantly more time in the serious game. During execution of a live AGV task, no significant differences of trust indicators or STP occurred between groups. Time in the serious game in combination with trends in the choice of autonomous or teleoperated control of the AGV may imply that users prefer a user-trained AGV over an off-the-shelf solution. All data points to the need for further studies into the use of serious gaming to develop autonomous behaviors through an interactive ML approach

Artificial Life

Author: Steven Levy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679743897
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?