Machines that think : everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence
2019
eBook
Abstract: Machines That Think explores how artificial intelligence helps us understand human intelligence and machines that compose music and write stories, and it asks if AI is really a threat.
Main title:
Machines that think : everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence / editor Douglas Heaven.
Author:
Heaven, Douglas, editorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
Work:
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
London [England] : John Murray Learning, 2017.©2017Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource (54 entries) : 20 images ; digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: xiv, 274 pages : illustrations
Contents:
Partial contents: Series introduction -- Contributors -- Academic contributors -- Introduction -- 1. In our image : the challenge of creating intelligent machines -- 2. Machines that learn : the mechanics of artificial minds -- 3. Anything you can do : how AI is outsmarting humans -- 4. Matters of life and death : driverless cars, AI doctors and killer robots -- 5. Into the unknown : how computers may overcome the limitations of the human mind -- 6. Machines that create : the AI world of art and storytelling -- 7. The real risks of AI : why fears of an apocalypse are overblown -- 8. Will machines inherit the Earth? : how superintelligent machines might revolutionize our world.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781473658585 (eBook ; : Nicholas Brealey Publishing)1473658578 (paperback ; : Nicholas Brealey Publishing)9781473658578 (paperback ; : Nicholas Brealey Publishing)1473629659 (paperback ; : John Murray Learning)9781473629653 (paperback ; : John Murray Learning)9781787853942 (electronic version)9781473629660 (eBook ; : John Murray Learning)
Dewey class:
006.3
LC class:
Q335
Language:
English
BRN:
501618
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