
Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement
Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2022
Book
Hardback
VII, 328 pages
978-3-11-076991-3 (ISBN)
Description
The technological innovations that have made "learning" computers possible are being met with utopian hopes as well as apocalyptic apprehensions. Will AI research eventually lead to software systems that have consciousness and are capable of autonomous decision making? The essays challenge "strong AI" from the perspective of human agency and moral judgment, explain the categorical difference between vulnerable humans and AI devices, and discuss diverse forms of applied AI, such as prograns of natural language processing, computional creativity, neuroenhancement, and the use of AI in international healthcare. These theoretical issues are illustrated in essays that focus on the encounter with artificial beings in film, literature and theater. Examining science fiction that blurs the borderline between humans and deep-learning androids, the essays explore, and challenge, ways of questioning human exceptionalism, for instance by visualizing non-conscious cognition and sentience. The book suggests a sober distinction between well-argued achievements of digital technology and excessive, unfounded expectations.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen, 13 farbige Abbildungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 b/w and 13 col. ill., 3 b/w tbl.
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
616 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-076991-3 (9783110769913)
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Herta Nagl-Docekal | Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement
Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities
Book
10/2023
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Herta Nagl-Docekal | Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement
Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities
E-Book
04/2022
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Persons
Herta Nagl-Docekal
and
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.