Artificial Intelligence
Published on 12. September 2002
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-0-7502-3953-0 (ISBN)
Description
From diagnosing diseases to navigating spacecraft, from challenging us in video games to selling us products on the Internet, artificial intelligence (AI) now affects every aspect of our lives. Over the last fifty years, researchers have created AI systems that are startlingly close to human intelligence in their capabilities, and progress continues to accelerate. This wide-ranging book looks at the origins and applications of AI - in robotics, science, industry, war and entertainment - and explores the exciting implications, and underlying risks, of future AI developments. It includes fact boxes, 'debate' suggestions to stimulate discussion and 'viewpoints' to show people's conflicting views on the subject.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
Colour photos and a/w
Dimensions
Height: 10 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 245 mm
Weight
334 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7502-3953-0 (9780750239530)
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Person
The author Alex Woolf is an experienced writer and editor of children's information books, specializing in history and science at secondary level. The consultant, Professor Igor Aleksander, has researched artificial intelligence since 1965. His recent work at Imperial College, London, has been on artificial visual awareness and models of the brain. He has written over 200 papers in these fields and twelve books, including How to Build a Mind (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000). He was awarded the Institution of Electrical Engineering's Year 2000 Outstanding Achievement Medal for contributions to informatics.