Social Machines
The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity
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Beschreibung
Will your next doctor be a human being—or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it?
This book introduces the technically-engaged reader to the convergence of two technologies: artificial intelligence in its modern incarnation and the growing trend of social
networking to "reach off the Web" into the real world. Both these technologies are important in their own right, but as they converge we are approaching an historic
inflection point in the partnership between human beings and machines with profound impacts on the future not only of computing but of our world.
In this book, AI expert and researcher James Hendler explores the social implications of artificial intelligence systems in the context of a close examination of the technologies
that make them possible. The author evaluates the utopian and dystopian prognostications of the social implications of the convergence of AI and social networking. Social Machines: The Coming
Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity is your field guide to the future of your personal relationships with the machines that are already changing your life and to the future of your machine-mediated relationships with other human beings and humanoid constructs.
Will your next doctor be a human being—or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it?This book introduces the reader to the pitfalls and promises of artificial intelligence (AI) in its modern incarnation and the growing trend of systems to "reach off the Web" into the real world. The convergence of AI, social networking, and modern computing is creating an historic inflection point in the partnership between human beings and machines with potentially profound impacts on the future not only of computing but of our world and species.AI experts and researchers James Hendler—co-originator of the Semantic Web (Web 3.0)—and Alice Mulvehill—developer of AI-based operational systems for DARPA, the Air Force, and NASA—explore the social implications of AI systems in the context of a close examination of the technologies that make them possible. The authors critically evaluate the utopian claims and dystopian counterclaimsof AI prognosticators. Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity is your richly illustrated field guide to the future of your machine-mediated relationships with other human beings and with increasingly intelligent machines.
What Readers Will Learn
- What the concept of a social machine is and how the activities of non-programmers are contributing to machine intelligence
- How modern artificial intelligence technologies, such as Watson, are evolving and how they process knowledge from both carefully produced information (such as Wikipedia and journal articles) and from big data collections
- The fundamentals of neuromorphic computing, knowledge graph search, and linked data, as well as the basic technology concepts that underlie networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter
- How the change in attitudes towards cooperative work on the Web, especially in the younger demographic, is critical to the future of Web applications
Who This Book Is ForGeneral readers and technically engaged developers, entrepreneurs, and technologists interested in the threats and promises of the accelerating convergence of artificial intelligence with social networks and mobile web technologies.
What the concept of a social machine is and how the activities of non-programmers are contributing to machine intelligence How modern artificial intelligence technologies, such as Watson, are evolving and how they process knowledge from both carefully produced information (such as Wikipedia and journal articles) and from big data collections The fundamentals of neuromorphic computing, knowledge graph search, and linked data, as well as the basic technology concepts that underlie networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter How the change in attitudes towards cooperative work on the Web, especially in the younger demographic, is critical to the future of Web applications
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James Hendler
Themen in »Social Machines«
AI machine learning knowledge graph search linked data neuromorphic computing crowd problem-solving Amazon Turk HFSE policy-aware computing Memex program dark web human networking
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“Social Machines, by Hendler (computer, web and cognitive sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Mulvehill, a research scientist and consultant, presents a provocative, futuristic view of machine-aided interaction with humans and intelligent machines. … This is an excellent book with many new and unique insights, and it is recommended to all. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” (C. Tappert, Choice, Vol. 54 (9), May, 2017)
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