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How to think about AI : a guide for the perplexed / Richard Susskind.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Susskind, Richard, 1961- author.
Series:
Oxford handbooks online.
Oxford handbooks online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Artificial intelligence--Popular works.
Artificial intelligence.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Summary:
Susskind tells the unfolding story of AI, explaining what it does and how it has evolved, offering unconventional views on its ups and downs. He suggests that the main error we make in thinking about AI is anthropomorphizing, that is, evaluating and discussing current and future AI systems by reference to humans.
Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Understanding AI. The Summer of AI
On Technology
Part Two: Thinking Differently. Process-Thinking and Outcome-Thinking
Confusions
We Don't Have the Words
Part Three: Making AI Work. Automation, Innovation, Elimination
Radical Structural Change
Part Four: Confronting the Risks. Categories of Risk
Harnessing AI
Part Five: Contemplating the Future. Conscious Machines?
Coming Soon
The Great Schism
Conclusion.
Notes:
Title from eBook information screen..
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 3, 2025).
ISBN:
0-19-894195-1
0-19-894193-5
OCLC:
1493331934

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