Understanding the Artificial: On the Future Shape of Artificial Intelligence (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Negrotti, Massimo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years a vast literature has been produced on the feasibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The topic most frequently discussed is the concept of intelligence, with efforts to demonstrate that it is or is not transferable to the computer. Only rarely has attention been focused on the concept of the artificial per se in order to clarify what kind, depth and scope of performance (including intelligence) it could support. Apart from the classic book by H.A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, published in 1969, no serious attempt has been made to define a conceptual frame for understanding the intimate nature of intelligent machines independently of its claimed or denied human-like features. The general aim of this book is to discuss, from different points of view, what we are losing and what we are gaining from the artificial, particularly from AI, when we abandon the original anthropomorphic pretension. There is necessarily a need for analysis of the history of AI and the limits of its plausibility in reproducing the human mind. In addition, the papers presented here aim at redefining the epistemology and the possible targets of the AI discipline, raising problems, and proposing solutions, which should be understood as typical of the artificial rather than of an information-based conception of man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447117766
• Artikelnr.: 44058472

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Artificial Intelligence: Its Future and its Cultural Roots.- 2. The Cognitive Dimension in the Processing of Natural Language.- 3. Making a Mind Versus Modelling the Brain: Artificial Intelligence Back at the Branchpoint.- 4. Alternative Intelligence.- 5. Artificial Intelligence as a Dialectic of Science and Technology.- 6. Biological and Artificial Intelligence.- 7. Computers, Musical Notation and the Externalisation of Knowledge: Towards a Comparative Study in the History of Information Technology.- 8. Cognitive Science and the Computer Metaphor.- 9. Intelligent Behaviour in Machines.- 10. Conclusions: The Dissymmetry of Mind and the Role of the Artificial.- Appendix A: One Hundred Definitions of AI Massimo Negrotti.- Appendix B: An Attempt at Getting a Basis for a Rational Definition of the Artificial Massimo Negrotti.Contents: AI: Its future and its cultural roots.- The cognitive dimension in the processing of natural language.- Making a mind versus modelling the brain: AI back at the branchpoint.- Alternative intelligence.- AI as a dialectic of science and technology.- Biological and artificial intelligence.- Computers, musical notation and the externalisation of knowledge: towards a comparative study in the history of information technology.- Cognitive science and the computer metaphor.- Intelligent behaviour in machines.- Conclusions: the dissymmetry of mind and the role of the artificial.- Appendix: 101 definitions of AI. An attempt at getting a basis for a rational definition of the artifical.- Subject index.