Intelligent Horizons:


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Intelligent Horizons: Exploring the Vast Applications of Artificial Intelligence unfolds the transformative journey of AI from its inception to its future potential, weaving through the myriad ways it's reshaping the fabric of society. This insightful tome delves into AI's profound impact across various sectors: healthcare, business, creative industries, environmental sustainability, and governance, revealing both its capabilities and the ethical considerations it entails. Chapter 1 sets the stage with a comprehensive overview of AI's evolution, grounding readers in the fundamental concepts that drive current innovations and applications. From historical milestones to the technologies underpinning AI, this chapter paints a picture of AI's journey from a fledgling science to a cornerstone of modern society. Chapter 2 explores AI's revolutionary role in healthcare, showcasing its contributions to diagnostics, personalized medicine, robotic surgery, and mental health. This section highlights AI's potential to save lives and optimize care, while also touching on the ethical dilemmas posed by such profound technological integration. In Chapter 3, the focus shifts to the business landscape, where AI is streamlining operations, enhancing customer experiences, and redefining marketing. The narrative examines the dual-edged sword of AI in the workplace: its capacity to create and displace jobs, urging a thoughtful approach to navigating the future of work. Chapter 4 ventures into the creative domains, where AI's involvement in art, music, literature, and entertainment challenges conventional notions of creativity and authorship. This chapter questions the boundaries between human and machine-generated art, offering a nuanced discussion on copyright and ethical considerations. Chapter 5 addresses the critical issue of environmental sustainability, illustrating how AI aids in climate modeling, conservation, smart city planning, and precision agriculture. Here, the book underscores the importance of leveraging AI to combat climate change and protect natural resources, advocating for responsible and ethical technology use. Chapter 6 examines AI's application in governance and public services, highlighting its potential to enhance policy analysis, public safety, and educational personalization. Yet, it also confronts the privacy concerns and ethical challenges inherent in deploying AI within the public sector. Finally, Chapter 7 looks forward to the emerging trends and technologies that will shape the future of AI applications. It calls for a balanced approach to innovation, emphasizing the need for ethical considerations, global collaboration, and societal preparedness in the face of AI's expanding influence. Intelligent Horizons is not just a book about artificial intelligence; it's a roadmap for navigating the complexities and possibilities of a future intertwined with AI. Through a blend of expert analysis, ethical discussion, and visionary outlook, it invites readers to engage with the pivotal issues at the heart of AI's expansion into every corner of human endeavor.




Open-Source Horizons - Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation


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Open-Source Horizons - Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation dives into the world of open-source research and collaboration, exploring its impact beyond software development. This book brings together a range of voices to examine the exciting potential and ongoing challenges. You can read along to explore how open-source fosters innovation, empowers individuals and ensures wider access to knowledge. Readers will encounter discussions on critical issues like public transparency or data privacy and ownership, along with the role of open-source in the new age of artificial intelligence. By examining these challenges, this text highlights remarkable opportunities for progress enabled by the open-source philosophy. This book aims, thus, to inspire and inform anyone interested in everything that surrounds this movement, from developers to designers and curious minds alike.




A Critical Understanding of Artificial Intelligence: A Phenomenological Foundation


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Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed as one of the technological advances that will reshape modern societies and their relations. While the design and deployment of systems that continually adapt hold the promise of far-reaching, positive change, they simultaneously pose significant risks, especially to already vulnerable people. This work explores the meaning of AI, and the important role of critical understanding and its phenomenological foundation in shaping its ongoing advances. The values, power, and magic of reason are central to this discussion. Critical theory has used historical hindsight to explain the patterns of power that shape our intellectual, political, economic, and social worlds, and the discourse on AI that surrounds these worlds. The authors also delve into niche topics in philosophy such as transcendental self-awareness, post-humanism, and concepts of space-time and computer logic. By embedding a critical phenomenological orientation within their technical practices, AI communities can develop foresight and tactics that can better align research and technology development with established ethical principles — centering vulnerable people who continue to bear the brunt of the negative impacts of innovation and scientific progress. The creation of a critical–technical practice of AI will lead to a permanent revolution in social, scientific, and political communities. The years ahead will usher in a wave of new scientific breakthroughs and technologies driven by AI research, making it incumbent upon AI communities to strengthen the social contract through ethical foresight, a capability which only phenomenology can deliver, ultimately supporting future technologies that enable greater well-being, with the goal of delivering practical truths. A Critical Understanding of Artificial Intelligence: A Phenomenological Foundation is an essential read for anyone interested in the complex debate and phenomenology surrounding AI and its growing role in our society.




The AI Revolution


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"The AI Revolution" is a comprehensive guide to the history, development, and future of artificial intelligence. In this book, you will explore the origins of AI and how it has evolved from theory to practical applications. You will also learn about the current uses of AI in various fields such as healthcare, finance, and transportation. The book examines the ethical considerations of AI and how to balance the benefits and risks of its use. This guide is perfect for anyone who wants to understand the impact of AI on society and its potential for shaping our future.




Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Management


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Artificial intelligence (AI) has driven businesses to adopt new business practices rapidly, enhance product development and services, has helped to power AI-based market intelligence and customer insights, and improve customer relationship management. This timely book addresses the use of AI in marketing. This book also explores the dark side of AI in marketing management and discusses ethics and transparency of automated decision-making in AI applications, data privacy, cyber security issues, and biases in various facets of marketing. Emerging applications of AI such as DeepFakes which use deep learning technology could increase risks of manipulation and deception. Hence, apart from leveraging AI capabilities and advantages, the book cautions the need for prevention strategies to deal with potential issues that could arise from the adoption of AI in marketing management. This book will provide practical insights into the role of AI in marketing management. It will be a useful reference for those researching marketing and marketing professionals.




Will AI Replace Us? (The Big Idea Series) (The Big Idea Series)


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This timely volume in The Big Idea series surveys the evolution of AI over the last sixty years and explores how it’s transforming society today and for decades to come. Artificial Intelligence, which once felt like a far-off futuristic fantasy, is now changing everyday life. The past sixty years have witnessed astonishing bursts of growth in the field of AI—the science and computational technologies that teach machines to sense, learn, reason, and act. AI is already altering our lives in ways that benefit health, productivity, and entertainment. Are we on the threshold of an AI-dominated world in which humans will no longer be necessary? Broken down into the past, present, and future of AI, Will AI Replace Us? gives the reader what they need to know in order to form an opinion about the revolutionary advances in technology. University of California, San Francisco, neuroscientist Dr. Shelly Fan expertly explains all sides of the debate, making the relevant science approachable for readers. Accompanying her intelligent text are numerous illustrations that add a compelling and informative visual element. Timely and relevant, Will AI Replace Us? is an important read in the Digital Age.







Computational Intelligence and Data Sciences


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This book presents futuristic trends in computational intelligence including algorithms as applicable to different application domains in health informatics covering bio-medical, bioinformatics, and biological sciences. Latest evolutionary approaches to solve optimization problems under biomedical engineering field are discussed. It provides conceptual framework with a focus on application of computational intelligence techniques in the domain of biomedical engineering and health informatics including real-time issues.