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