AI: its nature and future pdf da Margaret Boden
The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language from a fresh angle.
As a concept, Artificial Intelligence has fuelled and sharpened the philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, intelligence, and the uniqueness of human beings. Margaret A. Boden reviews the philosophical and technological challenges raised by Artificial Intelligence, considering whether programs could ever be really intelligent, creative or even conscious, and shows how the pursuit of Artificial Intelligence has helped us to appreciate how human and animal minds are possible.
CONTENTS
List of figures :
1 _What is Artificial Intelligence? 1
2 _General Intelligence as the Holy Grail 27
3 _Language, Creativity, Emotion 57
4 _Artificial Neural Networks 78
5 _Robots and Artificial Life 101
6 _But is it Intelligence, Really? 119
7_ The Singularity 147
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