Description
Book SynopsisThe field of artificial intelligence (AI) has grown dramatically in recent decades from niche expert systems to the current myriad of deep machine learning applications that include personal assistants, natural-language interfaces, and medical, financial, and traffic management systems. This boom in AI engineering masks the fact that all current AI systems are based on two fundamental ideas: mathematics (logic and statistics, from the 19th century), and a grossly simplified understanding of biology (mainly neurons, as understood in 1943). This book explores other fundamental ideas that have the potential to make AI more anthropomorphic.
Most books on AI are technical and do not consider the humanities. Most books in the humanities treat technology in a similar manner. AI and Human Thought and Emotion, however is about AI, how academics, researchers, scientists, and practitioners came to think about AI the way they do, and how they can think about it afresh with a human
Table of Contents
0. Introduction. PART I. Intelligence in Computers, Humans and Societies. 1. Artificial Intelligence as It Stands. 2. Current Critiques of Artificial Intelligence. 3. Human Thinking: Anxiety and Pretence. 4. Prevailing Prejudices Pertaining to Artificial Intelligence. PART II. An Alternative: AI, Subjectivity and Introspection. 5. Central Argument Outline. Main Term: "Anthropic AI." 7. Main Term: "Introspection." 8. Introspection is Ligitimate. 9. Introspection is Likely to Be Profitable. PART III Getting Practical. 10. Details and How to Use Introspection for Artificial Intelligence. 11. Examples. 12. A More Sophisticated Example. 13. Summary, Consequences, Conclusion.
