Heart of the Machine (eBook)

Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence

Richard Yonck (Autor)

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2017
328 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-734-0 (ISBN)

Infos

For Readers of Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku, a New Look at the Cutting Edge of Artificial Intelligence Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child's emotional state, a commercial that can recognize and change based on a customer's facial expression, or a company that can actually create feelings as though a person were experiencing them naturally. Heart of the Machine explores the next giant step in the relationship between humans and technology: the ability of computers to recognize, respond to, and even replicate emotions. Computers have long been integral to our lives, and their advances continue at an exponential rate. Many believe that artificial intelligence equal or superior to human intelligence will happen in the not-too-distance future; some even think machine consciousness will follow. Futurist Richard Yonck argues that emotion, the first, most basic, and most natural form of communication, is at the heart of how we will soon work with and use computers. Instilling emotions into computers is the next leap in our centuries-old obsession with creating machines that replicate humans. But for every benefit this progress may bring to our lives, there is a possible pitfall. Emotion recognition could lead to advanced surveillance, and the same technology that can manipulate our feelings could become a method of mass control. And, as shown in movies like Her and Ex Machina, our society already holds a deep-seated anxiety about what might happen if machines could actually feel and break free from our control. Heart of the Machine is an exploration of the new and inevitable ways in which mankind and technology will interact. The paperback edition has a new forewordbyRana el Kaliouby, PhD,a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence, as well as the cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed AI startup spun off from the MIT Media Lab.

Autor

Richard Yonck is a futurist, author, and speaker with Intelligent Future Consulting based in Seattle. An award-winning author on developing trends and technologies, he has written features and cover stories for numerous publications and web sites, and is the computing and artificial intelligence contributing editor for the long-running The Futurist magazine. He has been published in Scientific American, World Future Review, Fast Company, Wired, Psychology Today, H+ magazine, American Cinematographer, Mensa Bulletin, and the Seattle Times. He lives in Seattle.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2017
• Vorwort: Rana el Kaliouby
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Schlagworte: 300 million • 3D Printing • advancing technology • ai research • ai systems • artificial neural • business sector • computer intelligence • computer power • Computer Science • Computer Scientists • computing power • Cultural Evolution • Elon Musk • evolutionary algorithms • existential threat • exponential growth • extreme wealth technological deve • genetic programming • guaranteed income • human brains • human era • human future • human labor • human minds • Information Technologies • Integrated Circuits • intelligent machines • james barrat • jeff hawkins • Life extension • machine intelligence • MAC OS • martin ford • mass unemployment • merely human • million jobs • Moore's law • natural language • Neural Nets • Neural networks • optical character • OS X • processing power • Ray Kurzweil • recognition software • Reverse Engineering • robotic bodies • Speech Recognition • spiritual machines • strategic advantage joel garreau • strong ai • super ai • super intelligence • surpass human • synthetic body • target planet • Technological singularity • turing test • university graduates • Voice Recognition
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-734-9 / 1628727349
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-734-0 / 9781628727340