Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®

A good synopsis of the possible implications of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is going to change everything in our lives; yet this as a claim seems nothing new, since from the first days of the computer have we been promised a different future when the computer is able to think for itself. Come to think of it, we are still waiting for the true paperless office as well. This book is another that sets out to look at the advantages and possible disadvantages that artificial intelligence will bring, and since many systems today are more capable of independent reasoning and programmatic thinking, we are getting a lot closer to this nirvana. What will happen in the future when the computers are doing the thinking? Who will be responsible when something goes wrong? Whose side will the machine be on when the chips are down? The author takes a hard, focussed and opinionated look at this and more with this book, which comes with a bit of an eye-watering price-tag that could be viewed as unrealistic when you consider what you get. It is far from a being bad book but it does not feel to be so radical or evolutionary either. It raised some interesting points and may have you thinking a bit, yet but is that enough? It could be a solid performer if you borrow it from a library, but you must be particularly dedicated and interested to want to invest in this. Again, it starts to come back to the price since a lot of the concerns or objections may not exist if this was half or one-third of the price. Just like the problems that can still affect artificial intelligence and decision making systems, this reviewer remains on the fence and a firm decision either way about this book cannot be made. It is not bad in itself, yet is it sufficiently good? So-so always feels an unfair description, especially when you do encounter many positive attributes too. If there is doubt, check it out in a bookstore and see if you are sufficiently swayed to make a purchase decision – or hope for deep-discounting online.

Excellent livre. État parfait. Livraison extrêmement rapide. Satisfaction entière.

Excelentes explicaciones sobre la inteligencia artificial y sus alcances. Mitos y realidades con ejemplos claros de lo complejo que se puede volver este tema en un futuro no tan distante

SI tratta di un libro scritto bene e che affronta con precisione il tema della Intelligenza Artificiale. Molto utile per chi deve capire questa rivoluzione epocale.

This is a useful overview of the current state of artificial intelligence. The author has clearly been swimming in these waters during his academic studies and professional career. I came away with the sense that his thoughts and observations were based on close personal experience and careful analysis. If the area interests you, I think that you'll find that Dr. Kaplan is an experienced guide. What are some of the major areas that the book examines? He examines the definition of artificial intelligence, considers its intellectual history and explores the frontiers of robotics, computer vision and speech recognition. As he looks at the philosophy of AI, he explains his position on whether computers can think, have free will, possess consciousness, and have feelings. He doesn't think they do and deems it unlikely that they will. The author also examines the effect of AI on law, human labor (basically jobs) and social equity. These issues currently affect much of our political discourse. Since I think that much of our society fails to appreciate the economic and social effects of technology, the book addresses matters that, in my opinion, need more of society's attention. The book looks at the possible future impact of AI. The author believes that the future impact of AI will likely mirror that of other technological advances; in other words, that with time AI will be viewed as simply another tool to be employed for good or ill. You should be aware that the book takes time examining philosophical issues such as can intelligence be defined or accurately measured (probably not in the author's view), what are free will and consciousness (difficult to define in humans and probably impossible to define in machines) and feelings (whether computers will ever have feelings is mostly a matter of a human's personal choice). Will artificially intelligent machines ever rule over us (probably not, but no one's 100% sure)? This reminded me of another book published by Oxford on Complexity which described emergent conditions such as one or a number of water molecules do not possess the condition that we call "wetness," but a lot of water molecules in one place are commonly described as "wet". Maybe if we get enough of these machines connected and operated under a range of algorithms, then humans may discover that, as a large number of water molecules are "wet," a large interconnection of computers suitably programmed may start to look "intelligent," whatever we may mean by that. Dr. Kaplan provides a broad and useful overview of artificial intelligence. If the topic interests you, I recommend it.

Täglich liest man punktuell über AI Themen. Oft aufgebauscht beim jeweiligen Themenschwerpunkt. In diesem Buch (etwas anspruchsvoller in der englischen Sprache) wird der Versuch unternommen, die aktuelle "Gesamtschau" über die sehr unterschiedlichen Themenbereiche zu präsentieren. Es ist nicht ganz so entmutigend wie in Bostroms "Superintelligence", auch wenn dem Autor ganz zum Schluss doch auch erhebliche Zweifel an den Auswirkungen der Entwicklung kommen.