
Artificial Experts
Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines
Harry Collins(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 13. November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-262-53115-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create are limited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machines abilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the difference between human action and machine intelligence, the core of which is a witty and learned explanation of knowledge itself, of what communities know and the ways in which they know it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-53115-3 (9780262531153)
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Persons
H. M. Collins is Professor of Sociology, Head of the School of Social Sciences, and Director of the Science Studies Centre at the University of Bath.
Author
ProfessorCardiff University
Editor
Professor of Technology and SocietyMaastricht University
Professor of Science, Technology, and SocietyUniversity of Virginia
Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of SociologyCornell University