Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071441GYP |
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| Number of Pages | : | 235 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent short intro This is a quick and informative read. First, what is AI (it's essentially automation), what are the techniques and how is it advancing ? I got a little bored with the discussion of Free Will and whether AI can exhibit, and not just simulate, human traits, but at least it was brief. More interesting and even quite scary was the prediction of how AI will in the next 20 years or so replace many human wor. "Voice of Sanity Amid the Hysteria" according to Mark on Amazon. A calm view of artificial intelligence development that suggests we stop hyperventilating about what AI can and will do, whether good or bad. Written in an accessible way for general readership.. Five Stars Very informative and well written providing excellent understanding of a difficult subject.
Artificial Intelligence is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Whether we regard them as conscious or unwitting, revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances, is beside the point. Deep ethical questions that have bedeviled philosophers for ages will suddenly arrive on the steps of our courthouses. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. The emergence of systems capable of independent reasoning and action raises serious questions about just whose interests they are