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Bibilography, v. 2, p. 439-469.
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technological civilization
ISBN : 9780156623414
Bibilography, v. 2, p. 439-469.
Author : Erik J. Larson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0674983513
“Artificial intelligence has always inspired outlandish visions—that AI is going to destroy us, save us, or at the very least radically transform us. Erik Larson exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it. This is a timely, important, and even essential book.” —John Horgan, author of The End of Science Many futurists insist that AI will soon achieve human levels of intelligence. From there, it will quickly eclipse the most gifted human mind. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence argues that such claims are just that: myths. We are not on the path to developing truly intelligent machines. We don’t even know where that path might be. Erik Larson charts a journey through the landscape of AI, from Alan Turing’s early work to today’s dominant models of machine learning. Since the beginning, AI researchers and enthusiasts have equated the reasoning approaches of AI with those of human intelligence. But this is a profound mistake. Even cutting-edge AI looks nothing like human intelligence. Modern AI is based on inductive reasoning: computers make statistical correlations to determine which answer is likely to be right, allowing software to, say, detect a particular face in an image. But human reasoning is entirely different. Humans do not correlate data sets; we make conjectures sensitive to context—the best guess, given our observations and what we already know about the world. We haven’t a clue how to program this kind of reasoning, known as abduction. Yet it is the heart of common sense. Larson argues that all this AI hype is bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we are to make real progress, we must abandon futuristic talk and learn to better appreciate the only true intelligence we know—our own.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
ISBN : 9780151639731
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0226550273
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author : Laurel Snyder
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0615161324
The gorgeous simplicity of Laurel Snyder's language makes all the possibilities-and the impossibility-of living stand out starkly. Her machines are thought machines, memory machines, the machines of false and daily logic, and we recognize them all. And, of course, they don't work this time either, but Snyder has found the poignancy in this, and more than that, she has found its meaning. A startling and touching book. --Cole Swensen
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231121057
Lewis Mumford was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with technics. This text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture.
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691202265
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Author : Derrick Jensen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1931498520
Jensen and Draffan look at the way machine readable devices that track our identities and purchases have infiltrated our lives and have come to define our culture.
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 1971
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