A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Title | A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Wooldridge |
Publisher | Flatiron Books |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2021-01-19 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1250770734 |
From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent autonomous action that currently only people are capable of. As an AI researcher with 25 years of experience, professor Mike Wooldridge has learned to be obsessively cautious about such claims, while still promoting an intense optimism about the future of the field. There have been genuine scientific breakthroughs that have made AI systems possible in the past decade that the founders of the field would have hailed as miraculous. Driverless cars and automated translation tools are just two examples of AI technologies that have become a practical, everyday reality in the past few years, and which will have a huge impact on our world. While the dream of conscious machines remains, Professor Wooldridge believes, a distant prospect, the floodgates for AI have opened. Wooldridge's A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence is an exciting romp through the history of this groundbreaking field--a one-stop-shop for AI's past, present, and world-changing future.
BRIEF HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Title | BRIEF HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PDF eBook |
Author | MICHAEL. WOOLDRIDGE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1250770750 |
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Title | A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Wooldridge |
Publisher | Flatiron Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-01-19 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9781250770745 |
From the head of Oxford's Computer Science Department and one of the most cited AI researcher internationally comes Michael Wooldridge's A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence, a comprehensive and accessible tour through the history and future of science's most cutting-edge and misunderstood field: Artificial Intelligence...
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
Title | The Myth of Artificial Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | Erik J. Larson |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0674983513 |
“Artificial intelligence has always inspired outlandish visions—that AI is going to destroy us, save us, or at the very least radically transform us. Erik Larson exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it. This is a timely, important, and even essential book.” —John Horgan, author of The End of Science Many futurists insist that AI will soon achieve human levels of intelligence. From there, it will quickly eclipse the most gifted human mind. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence argues that such claims are just that: myths. We are not on the path to developing truly intelligent machines. We don’t even know where that path might be. Erik Larson charts a journey through the landscape of AI, from Alan Turing’s early work to today’s dominant models of machine learning. Since the beginning, AI researchers and enthusiasts have equated the reasoning approaches of AI with those of human intelligence. But this is a profound mistake. Even cutting-edge AI looks nothing like human intelligence. Modern AI is based on inductive reasoning: computers make statistical correlations to determine which answer is likely to be right, allowing software to, say, detect a particular face in an image. But human reasoning is entirely different. Humans do not correlate data sets; we make conjectures sensitive to context—the best guess, given our observations and what we already know about the world. We haven’t a clue how to program this kind of reasoning, known as abduction. Yet it is the heart of common sense. Larson argues that all this AI hype is bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we are to make real progress, we must abandon futuristic talk and learn to better appreciate the only true intelligence we know—our own.
Ai
Title | Ai PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Crevier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1993-05-18 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN |
A fascinating portrait of the people, programs, and ideas that have driven the search to create thinking machines. Rich with anecdotes about the founders and leaders and their celebrated feuds and intellectual gamesmanship, AI chronicles their dramatic successes and failures and discusses the next nece ssary breakthrough: teaching computers "common sense".
Machines Who Think
Title | Machines Who Think PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela McCorduck |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2004-03-17 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1040083102 |
This book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry.
Cambrian Intelligence
Title | Cambrian Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Allen Brooks |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780262522632 |
Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was illusory, Rodney A. Brooks turned the field of AI on its head by introducing the behavior-based approach to robotics. The cornerstone of behavior-based robotics is the realization that the coupling of perception and action gives rise to all the power of intelligence and that cognition is only in the eye of an observer. Behavior-based robotics has been the basis of successful applications in entertainment, service industries, agriculture, mining, and the home. It has given rise to both autonomous mobile robots and more recent humanoid robots such as Brooks' Cog. This book represents Brooks' initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavior-based approach to robotics. It presents all of the key philosophical and technical ideas that put this "bottom-up" approach at the forefront of current research in not only AI but all of cognitive science.