Boden, Margaret A.,

AI : its nature and future / Artificial intelligence Margaret A. Boden. - 1st ed. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016. - 198 p. : illustration ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-191) and index.

1. What is artificial intelligence? -- 2. General intelligence as the Holy Grail -- 3. Language, creativity, emotion -- 4. Artificial neural networks -- 5. Robots and artificial life -- 6. But is it intelligence, really? -- 7. The singularity.

Margaret A. Boden reviews in this work the philosophical and technological challenges raised by Artificial Intelligence (AI), considering whether programs could ever be really intelligent, creative or even conscious. Moreover she shows how the pursuit of Artificial Intelligence has helped us to appreciate how human and animal minds are possible.--

9780198777984 (hbk)

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