A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, what it does, and how it will change our lives. At a breathtaking pace, artificial intelligence is getting better and faster at making complex decisions. AI can already identify malignant tumors on CT scans, give legal advice, out-bluff the best poker players in the world, and, with ever-increasing skill, drive our cars. In Who's Afraid of AI?, award-winning author Thomas Ramge expertly explains how machines are learning to learn, and he questions what today's explosion of AI capability could mean for tomorrow:
• Is it ethical to allow robots—endlessly patient—to replace human caregivers in providing comfort and companionship to the elderly?
• Since AI feeds on big data, can we prevent its misuse by corporations or the government?
• Will AI ever be capable of runaway self-improvement? And if "the singularity" does arrive, with AI's intelligence exponentially outpacing our own, what will become of us when, in many ways, we're obsolete?
Author(s): Thomas Ramge
Publisher: The Experiment
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 130
Tags: Fear, Promise, Age of Thinking Machines
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Chapter 1: The Next Step of Automation: Machines Making Decisions......Page 16
Chapter 2: Turing's Heirs: A (Very) Short History of Artificial Intelligence......Page 38
Chapter 3: How Machines Learn to Learn: Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning, and Feedback Effects......Page 56
Chapter 4: Human Asks, Machine Answers: AI as a Daily Assistant, Salesperson, Lawyer, and Doctor......Page 70
Chapter 5: Robots as Coworkers: Smart Machines, Cobots, and the Internet of Intelligent Things......Page 88
Chapter 6: Superintelligence and the Singularity: Will Robots Seize Control?......Page 108
Selected Sources......Page 125
Acknowledgments......Page 128
About the Author......Page 129
