The Shape of Thought
Reasoning in the Age of AI
Seiten
2025
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2574-0 (ISBN)
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2574-0 (ISBN)
Building on inquiries spanning three decades, The Shape of Thought shows that by understanding the many different things that people achieve with computers, we can improve and diversify AI to allow for richer, more beneficial human-computer interaction.
Artificial intelligence (AI) consists of a dazzling set of computational tools that few fully understand. From our cars to our homes to how we socialize and work, AI is everywhere and makes life so much better. It might irritate in some instances but mostly it helps. Or it seems to.
Yet AI developers have an unusually narrow perspective on intelligence, reducing all judgments to a calculus. Machines excel at this form of intelligence, but it is not how most people define the word. While this narrowing has provided useful direction for the development of computers, Richard Harper argues, it also constrains what people are capable of. When we reach for AI to help us unwind, connect with others, or even create art, it’s not analytical intelligence that we are after. The human behaviours that AI seeks to supplement are shaped as much by mood, morals, indolence, and interrelation as they are by calculation. Drawing on three decades of inquiry, Harper reveals that when we are misled about what AI cannot do, we fail to see what it can.
The Shape of Thought shows how to break free from this narrow view. By better understanding the many different things that people achieve with computers, we can improve and diversify AI to allow for richer, more beneficial human-computer interaction.
Artificial intelligence (AI) consists of a dazzling set of computational tools that few fully understand. From our cars to our homes to how we socialize and work, AI is everywhere and makes life so much better. It might irritate in some instances but mostly it helps. Or it seems to.
Yet AI developers have an unusually narrow perspective on intelligence, reducing all judgments to a calculus. Machines excel at this form of intelligence, but it is not how most people define the word. While this narrowing has provided useful direction for the development of computers, Richard Harper argues, it also constrains what people are capable of. When we reach for AI to help us unwind, connect with others, or even create art, it’s not analytical intelligence that we are after. The human behaviours that AI seeks to supplement are shaped as much by mood, morals, indolence, and interrelation as they are by calculation. Drawing on three decades of inquiry, Harper reveals that when we are misled about what AI cannot do, we fail to see what it can.
The Shape of Thought shows how to break free from this narrow view. By better understanding the many different things that people achieve with computers, we can improve and diversify AI to allow for richer, more beneficial human-computer interaction.
Richard H.R. Harper is director of the Centre for Material Social Futures at Lancaster University, visiting professor in the College of Science at the University of Swansea, and the author of several award-winning books.
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: The Shape of Thought in the Age of AI 3
1 From Turing to Chatbots 25
2 The Language of Use 63
3 The Geographies of Intelligence at Home 97
4 The Bonds of Intelligence in Communication 126
5 The Shape of Intelligent Selves 160
Conclusion: Shaping Thoughts for the Age of AI 198
Notes 219
References 233
Index 245
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Montreal |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-2280-2574-5 / 0228025745 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-2280-2574-0 / 9780228025740 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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