AI & I - An Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence

A concise and illuminating history of the field of artificial;intelligence from one of its earliest and most respected;pioneers. Written for the scientifically educated layperson, this book chronicles the history of the field of AI, starting with its origin, in 1956, as a topic for a small academic workshop held at Dartmouth University. From there, the author covers reasoning and knowledge representation; reasoning under uncertainty; chess; computer vision; speech recognition; language acquisition; deep learning; and learning writ large. Ultimately, Charniak takes issue with the controversy of AI--the fear that its invention means the end of jobs, creativity, and potentially even humans as a species--and explains why such concerns are unfounded. Instead, he believes that we should embrace the technology and all its potential to benefit society.

List of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword 7
Preface and Conclusion 9
1 Beginnings (1956–1970) 13
2 Reasoning and Knowledge Representation (1970–1985) 31
4 Chess (1965–1997) 61
5 Computer Vision (1970–2000) 67
6 Speech Recognition (1971–1985) 79
7 Learning Language (1985–2010) 91
8 Deep Learning (1989–2016) 101
9 Reinforcement Learning and the Game of Go (1990–2017) 119
10 Learning Writ Large (2017–2023) 129
11 AI, Present and Future (2023) 149

About the author

Eugene Charniak; foreword by Michael L. Littman

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Charniak, Charniak Eugene, Michael L. Littman, Michael L. Littman
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9780262548731
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54873-1
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, COMPUTERS / History, Information technology: general issues, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, History of Computing, digital and information technologies