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Artificial knowing : gender and the thinking machine / Alison Adam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adam, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Women.
- Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Expert systems (Computer science).
- Knowledge representation (Information theory).
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- v, 210 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alison Adam challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence of the world in her book which re-enforces criticisms of the AI project. Adam also shows how gender bias is programmed into AI-based systems using theories based on feminism.
- Contents:
- chapter INTRODUCTION
- chapter 1 FEMINIST RESOURCES
- chapter 2 AI IN CONTEXT
- chapter 3 THE KNOWING SUBJECT IN AI
- chapter 4 KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE AND RATIONALITY IN AI
- chapter 5 EMBODIMENT AND SITUATEDNESS
- chapter 6 FEMINIST AI PROJECTS AND CYBERFUTURES.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-79355-3
- 0-203-00505-8
- 1-134-79356-1
- 1-280-50648-2
- 9786610506484
- 9780203005057
- OCLC:
- 900343524
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