Artifictional intelligence : against humanity's surrender to computers /

Collins, H. M. 1943-

Artifictional intelligence : against humanity's surrender to computers / Harry Collins. - xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Computers in social life and the danger of the surrender -- Expertise and writing about AI : some reflections on the project -- Language and repair -- Humans, social contexts and bodies -- Six levels of artificial intelligence -- Deep learning : precedent-based, pattern-recognizing computers -- Kurzweil's brain and the sociology of knowledge -- How humans learn what computers can't -- Two models of artificial intelligence and the way forward -- The editing test and other new versions of the Turing test.

Startling successes in machine intelligence using 'deep learning' have dramatically raised the stakes in the rise of AI. However, Harry Collins argues that it is still impossible to foresee a time when machines will be sufficiently embedded in society to be independent of human input or when we cannot distinguish between humans and computers--

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Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence--Moral and ethical aspects.

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