Artificial Intelligence : A Beginner's Guide

by Whitby, Blay

• ISBN13: 9781851683222
• ISBN10: 1851683224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

This jargon-free guide introduces the futuristic world of Artificial Intelligence, the science of creating machines that can think for themselves.

Author Biography

Blay Whitby is lecturer in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex, England.

Table of Contents

acknowledgements	x
preface	xi
what is ai?	1	(17)
What AI is	1	(2)
What AI is not	3	(3)
AI methods and tools	6	(4)
What is the ultimate goal of AI?	10	(2)
The Turing test	12	(3)
Is the Turing test the ultimate goal of AI?	15	(3)
ai at work	18	(23)
Some glittering successes	18	(2)
Searching for solutions	20	(5)
Computer champions	25	(4)
The power of knowledge	29	(4)
Is knowledge the key to intelligence?	33	(3)
Diamonds in the data	36	(5)
ai and biology	41	(25)
Introduction	41	(1)
Inspiration from brains	42	(8)
What can artificial neural nets do?	50	(2)
Unsupervised learning	52	(2)
Are artificial neural nets the key to intelligence?	54	(4)
Learning from evolution -- genetic algorithms	58	(2)
A (literary) example	60	(3)
Why not just evolve intelligence?	63	(3)
some challenges	66	(26)
Factionalism	67	(3)
What does the robot need to know?	70	(3)
Trapped in the Chinese Room?	73	(4)
What machines can't do	77	(1)
Some promises	78	(14)
ai diffuses	92	(17)
The ``yes,... but question''	92	(4)
Cognitive science	96	(5)
What about the Turing test?	101	(1)
What about consciousness?	102	(3)
What's intelligence then?	105	(4)
present and future trends	109	(24)
The social effects of AI	109	(1)
The social effects of AI technology	110	(3)
Will robots rule the world?	113	(4)
Al and art	117	(2)
The future	119	(2)
What's going on now?	121	(2)
Integration	123	(3)
Artificial agents	126	(2)
Virtual girlfriends and artificial companions	128	(5)
bibliography	133	(6)
index	139