In our own image
Subtitle: savior or destroyer? : the history and future of artificial intelligence
By: George Zarkadakis
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books; Pegasus Books LLC
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781605989648
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Machine theory; Human-computer interaction; Artificial intelligence
Description: Exploring the history and future, as well as the societal and ethical implications, of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the author, who has a PhD in AI, explains its history, technology and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and conscious; and what AI reveals about us human beings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dreaming of electric sheep. The birth of the modern mind ; Life in the bush of ghosts ; The mechanical Turk ; Loving the alien ; Prometheus unbound ; The return of the gods; title: The mind problem. A blueprint for a universe ; Minds without bodies ; La Résistance ; Peering into the mind ; The cybernetic brain; title: Ada in Wonderland. 'All Cretans are liars' ; The program ; From Bletchley Park to Google Campus ; Machines that think ; Darwin at the edge of chaos; title: Epilogue: The future of humanity; title: Timeline: A brief history of artificial intelligence.