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The AI effect is the discounting of the behavior of an artificial-intelligence program as not "real" intelligence. [1]The author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to ...
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, GenAI, [165] or GAI) is a subset of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text, images, videos, or other forms of data. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] [ 168 ] These models learn the underlying patterns and structures of their training data and use them to produce new data [ 169 ...
Book cover of the 1979 paperback edition. Hubert Dreyfus was a critic of artificial intelligence research. In a series of papers and books, including Alchemy and AI, What Computers Can't Do (1972; 1979; 1992) and Mind over Machine, he presented a pessimistic assessment of AI's progress and a critique of the philosophical foundations of the field.
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans is a 2019 nonfiction book by Santa Fe Institute professor Melanie Mitchell. [1] The book provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and argues that people tend to overestimate the abilities of artificial intelligence. [2] [3]
Fictional scenarios typically involve a drawn-out conflict against malicious artificial intelligence (AI) or robots with anthropomorphic motives. In contrast, some scholars believe that a takeover by a future advanced AI, if it were to happen in real life, would succeed or fail rapidly, and would be a disinterested byproduct of the AI's pursuit of its own alien goals, rather than a product of ...
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author James Barrat. The book discusses the potential benefits and possible risks of human-level or super-human artificial intelligence. [1] Those supposed risks include extermination of the human race. [2]
Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. Broussard has published features and essays in many outlets including The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Slate Magazine. Broussard has published a wide range of books examining the intersection of technology and social practice.
Concern over risk from artificial intelligence has led to some high-profile donations and investments. In 2015, Peter Thiel , Amazon Web Services , and Musk and others jointly committed $1 billion to OpenAI , consisting of a for-profit corporation and the nonprofit parent company, which says it aims to champion responsible AI development. [ 117 ]