AI Narratives - A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (Hardcover)

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. These chapters explore the revealing pre-history of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse, from the nature of mind and creativity to issues of power and rights, from the tension between fascination and ambivalence to investigations into artificial voices and technophobia. Part II focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first-centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology. These chapters reveal not only how AI narratives have consistently been entangled with the emergence of real robotics and AI, but also how they offer a rich source of insight into how we might live with these revolutionary machines. Through their close textual engagements, these chapters explore the relationship between imaginative narratives and contemporary debates about AI's social, ethical and philosophical consequences, including questions of dehumanization, automation, anthropomorphisation, cybernetics, cyberpunk, immortality, slavery, and governance. The contributions, from leading humanities and social science scholars, show that narratives about AI offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful new technologies.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2020
Editors:	Stephen Cave (Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence) • Kanta Dihal (Research Associate, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence) • Sarah Dillon (Lecturer in Literature and Film, Faculty of English)
Dimensions:	223 x 144 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-884666-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Machine learning Promotions
LSN:	0-19-884666-5
Barcode:	9780198846666

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