Artificial intelligence and human enhancement : affirmative and critical approaches in the humanities / edited by Herta Nagl-Docekal, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, editor.

Nagl-Docekal, Herta, editor.

Series:

Wiener Reihe

Wiener Reihe ; v.21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The technological innovations that have made "learning" computers possible are being met with utopian hopes as well as apocalyptic apprehensions. Will AI research eventually lead to software systems that have consciousness and are capable of autonomous decision making? The essays challenge "strong AI" from the perspective of human agency and moral judgment, explain the categorical difference between vulnerable humans and AI devices, and discuss diverse forms of applied AI, such as prograns of natural language processing, computional creativity, neuroenhancement, and the use of AI in international healthcare. These theoretical issues are illustrated in essays that focus on the encounter with artificial beings in film, literature and theater. Examining science fiction that blurs the borderline between humans and deep-learning androids, the essays explore, and challenge, ways of questioning human exceptionalism, for instance by visualizing non-conscious cognition and sentience. The book suggests a sober distinction between well-argued achievements of digital technology and excessive, unfounded expectations.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement

Part 1: Challenging "Strong AI" from the Perspective of Human Agency

The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason

Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject

Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI

AI's Winograd Moment

or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science

Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity

Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index

Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater

Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence

Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness

"I, Robot": Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman

AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton

Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power

List of contributors

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783110770216

3110770210

OCLC:

1311596578