Boden, Margaret A.,

AI : its nature and future / Margaret A. Boden. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 - 198 p. : illustration ; 21 cm

1. What is artificial intelligence? -- 2. General intelligence as the Holy Grail -- 3. Language, creativity, emotion -- 4. Artificial neural networks -- 5. Robots and artificial life -- 6. But is it intelligence, really? -- 7. The singularity.

Margaret A. Boden reviews in this work the philosophical and technological challenges raised by Artificial Intelligence (AI), considering whether programs could ever be really intelligent, creative or even conscious. Moreover she shows how the pursuit of Artificial Intelligence has helped us to appreciate how human and animal minds are possible.--

9780198777984 (hbk)


Artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

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