num_pages: 384
description: A timely and important book that explores the history and future as well as the societal and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence as we approach the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationshipsour ties with artificial intelligence or AI. He traces AI's origins in ancient myth through literary classics like Frankenstein to today's sci-fi blockbusters arguing that a fascination with AI is hardwired into the human psyche. He explains AI's history technology and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness as well asperhaps most tellinglywhat AI reveals about us as human beings. In Our Own Image argues that we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolutionpoised to enter the age of Artificial Intelligence as science fiction becomes science fact. Ultimately Zarkadakis observes the fate of AI has profound implications for the future of science and humanity itself.
language: English
title: In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
publisher: Pegasus Books