The Digital Ape
How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
Published on 27. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-19-093298-5 (ISBN)
Description
The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they
become. How we exercise that control-in our private lives, in employment, in politics-and make the best of the wonderful opportunities, will determine our collective future well-being.
Chapter by chapter, The Digital Ape outline how our choices and the use and adaptation of the tools we've created can lead to opportunities for the environment (both built and natural), health, and our security. Shadbolt and Hampson are uniquely well-suited to draw on historical precedent and technical know-how to offer a vision of the future that is exciting, rather than nerve-wracking, to contemplate.
become. How we exercise that control-in our private lives, in employment, in politics-and make the best of the wonderful opportunities, will determine our collective future well-being.
Chapter by chapter, The Digital Ape outline how our choices and the use and adaptation of the tools we've created can lead to opportunities for the environment (both built and natural), health, and our security. Shadbolt and Hampson are uniquely well-suited to draw on historical precedent and technical know-how to offer a vision of the future that is exciting, rather than nerve-wracking, to contemplate.
Reviews / Votes
Rich in ideas and insights, the book is especially strong on our growing personal relationships with Alexa and other robots... An upbeat-even reassuring-take on what will be an AI-saturated future. * KIRKUS * Numbed by dire warnings of technological Armageddon? Computer scientist Nigel Shadbolt and economist Roger Hampson dispel the miasma with this superb survey of the landscape we 'digital apes' have wrought * NATURE * This is a brilliantly readable, genuinely cutting-edge book that is also often very entertaining. Of all the recent studies of automation and AI,The Digital Apestands head and shoulders above the rest. Shadbolt and Hampson have written a landmark book * Andrew Keen, Author ofHOW TO FIX THE FUTUREandTHE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER * [W]e should be grateful to Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson for pausing for breath and helping us to think through the true significance of our latest technological developments. * FINANCIAL TIMES *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-093298-5 (9780190932985)
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Persons
Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the world's foremost computer scientists. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is Principal of Jesus College Oxford and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of
Engineering, a Fellow and former President of the British Computer Society.
Roger Hampson is an academic and public servant. He was chief executive of the London Borough of Redbridge for 16 years until early 2016. Until 1986, he was an academic economist of social policy, latterly research fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. He was a member of the Local Public Data Panel, and a non-executive director of the Open Data Institute.
Engineering, a Fellow and former President of the British Computer Society.
Roger Hampson is an academic and public servant. He was chief executive of the London Borough of Redbridge for 16 years until early 2016. Until 1986, he was an academic economist of social policy, latterly research fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. He was a member of the Local Public Data Panel, and a non-executive director of the Open Data Institute.
Content
Chapter 1 Biology and technology
Chapter 2 Our hyper-complex habitat
Chapter 3 The digital ape emerges
Chapter 4 Social machines
Chapter 5 Artificial and natural intelligence
Chapter 6 New companions
Chapter 7 Big beasts
Chapter 8 The challenge of data
Chapter 9 Augmented wisdom?
Afterword 311
Chapter References
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Our hyper-complex habitat
Chapter 3 The digital ape emerges
Chapter 4 Social machines
Chapter 5 Artificial and natural intelligence
Chapter 6 New companions
Chapter 7 Big beasts
Chapter 8 The challenge of data
Chapter 9 Augmented wisdom?
Afterword 311
Chapter References
Bibliography