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Artificial intelligence is today's story - the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time : good AI versus evil AI.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE--SOCIAL ASPECTS

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Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring homeowners, students, educators, patients, clients, prison inmates, members of ethnic and sexual minorities, and voters in liberal democracies? Authored by experts in fields ranging from computer science and law to philosophy and cognitive science, this book offers a concise overview of moral, political, legal and economic implications of AI. It covers the basics of AI's latest permutation, machine learning, and considers issues such as transparency, bias, liability, privacy, and regulation.Both business and government have integrated algorithmic decision support systems into their daily operations, and the book explores the implications for our lives as citizens. For example, do we take it on faith that a machine knows best in approving a patient's health insurance claim or a defendant's request for bail? What is the potential for manipulation by targeted political ads? How can the processes behind these technically sophisticated tools ever be transparent? The book discusses such issues as statistical definitions of fairness, legal and moral responsibility, the role of humans in machine learning decision systems, “nudging” algorithms and anonymized data, the effect of automation on the workplace, and AI as both regulatory tool and target.

Artificial intelligence - Social aspects - Popular works --- Artificial intelligence

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"Since its inception, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been nurtured by the dream - cherished by some scientists while dismissed as unrealistic by others - that it will lead to forms of intelligence similar or alternative to human life. However, AI might be more accurately described as a range of technologies providing a convincing illusion of intelligence - in other words, not much the creation of intelligent beings, but rather of technologies that are perceived by humans as such. Deceitful Media argues that AI resides also and especially in the perception of human users. Exploring the history of AI from its origins in the Turing Test to contemporary AI voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri, Simone Natale demonstrates that our tendency to project humanity into things shapes the very functioning and implications of AI. He argues for a recalibration of the relationship between deception and AI that helps recognize and critically question how computing technologies mobilize specific aspects of users' perception and psychology in order to create what we call "AI." Introducing the concept of "banal deception," which describes deceptive mechanisms and practices that are embedded in AI, the book shows that deception is as central to AI's functioning as the circuits, software, and data that make it run. Delving into the relationship between AI and deception, Deceitful Media thus reformulates the debate on AI on the basis of a new assumption: that what machines are changing is primarily us, humans. If 'intelligent' machines might one day revolutionize life, the book provocatively suggests, they are already transforming how we understand and carry out social interactions"--

Artificial intelligence --- Philosophy of mind --- Social aspects --- Philosophy of mind. --- Social aspects. --- Artificial intelligence - Social aspects

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"The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's reach. The world's biggest corporations are racing to automate jobs, and some experts predict that A.I could put millions of people out of work. Meanwhile, runaway algorithms have already changed the news we see, the politicians we elect, and the ways we interact with each other. But all is not lost. With a little effort, we can become futureproof. In Futureproof: 9 Rules for Machine-Age Humans, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out an optimistic vision of how people can thrive in the machine age by rethinking their relationship with technology, and making themselves irreplaceably human. In nine pragmatic, accessible lessons, Roose draws on interviews with leading technologists, trips to the A.I. frontier, and centuries' worth of history to prepare readers to live, work, and thrive in the coming age of intelligent machines. He shares the secrets of people and organizations that have successfully survived technological change, including a 19th-century rope-maker and a Japanese auto worker, and explains how people, organizations, and communities can apply their lessons to safeguard their own futures. The lessons include : Do work that is surprising, social, and scarce (the types of work machines can't do), break your phone addiction with the help of a rubber band, work in an office, treat A.I. like the office gorilla, resist "hustle porn" and efficiency culture and do less, slower Roose's examination of the future rejects the conventional wisdom that in order to compete with machines, we have to become more like them -- hyper-efficient, data-driven, code-writing workhorses. Instead, he says, we should let machines be machines, and focus on doing the kinds of creative, inspiring, and meaningful work only humans can do"--

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Une réflexion sur le concept de singularité technologique, le moment présumé où l'intelligence artificielle des ordinateurs dépasserait celles des humains. L'auteur démontre que cette perspective est à la fois abusivement utilisée et qu'elle recycle de vieilles idées millénaristes sur le sujet. ©Electre 2017 L'intelligence artificielle va-t-elle bientôt dépasser celle des humains ? Ce moment critique, baptisé " Singularité technologique ", fait partie des nouveaux buzzwords de la futurologie contemporaine et son imminence est proclamée à grand renfort d'annonces mirobolantes par des technogourous comme Ray Kurzweil (chef de projet chez Google !) ou Nick Bostrom (de la vénérable université d'Oxford). Certains scientifiques et entrepreneurs, non des moindres, tels Stephen Hawking ou Bill Gates, partagent ces perspectives et s'en inquiètent. Menace sur l'humanité et/ou promesse d'une transhumanité, ce nouveau millénarisme est appelé à se développer. Nos machines vont-elles devenir plus intelligentes et plus puissantes que nous ? Notre avenir est-il celui d'une cybersociété où l'humanité serait marginalisée ? Ou accéderons-nous à une forme d'immortalité en téléchargeant nos esprits sur les ordinateurs de demain ? Voici un essai critique et concis sur ce thème à grand retentissement par l'un de nos meilleurs experts des humanités numériques.

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