Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Between Catastrophe and Utopia

Shalom Lappin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

124 Seiten

2025
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-041-03668-5 (ISBN)

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After many years during which it languished in relative obscurity, in remote classrooms of computer science departments and in small prototype projects for tech companies, artificial intelligence (AI) is now a searingly hot topic across the media. Yet much of the public discussion is so feverish that an understanding of the basic scientific and engineering elements of the field is easily lost, often resulting in exaggerated claims, as well as dangerously neglected threats.

This concise and sober book presents a brief history of AI, explaining in clear language the central engineering innovations that have produced the current revolution. It distinguishes between imagined dangers and the very real problems that AI is creating. Spread across seven short and accessible chapters, this book explains the developments behind deep learning and the applications of deep neural networks (DNNs). It addresses both the imagined and actual risks posed by the AI revolution, before outlining the elements of a rational public policy on AI, covering topics like tech monopolies, disinformation, bias, hate speech, intellectual property rights, and inequality.

Suitable for the general reader, Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Between Catastrophe and Utopia is the ideal book for anyone seeking a clear and informed introduction to AI.

Shalom Lappin is Professor of Natural Language Processing in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics in Informatics at King’s College London, and Scientific Researcher in CLASP at the University of Gothenburg. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Chapter 1 ◾ The Early Years

Chapter 2 ◾ The Deep Learning Revolution

Chapter 3 ◾ What Can Deep Neural Networks Do for Us?

Chapter 4 ◾ Risks Imagined

Chapter 5 ◾ Risks Actual

Chapter 6 ◾ Towards a Rational Public Policy on AI

Chapter 7 ◾ Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	19 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-041-03668-X / 104103668X
ISBN-13	978-1-041-03668-5 / 9781041036685
Zustand	Neuware