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Index
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chapter 1 What is artificial intelligence?
Virtual machines
The major types of AI
AI foreseen
How AI began
Cybernetics
How AI divided
Chapter 2 General intelligence as the Holy Grail
Supercomputers aren’t enough
Heuristic search
Planning
Mathematical simplification
Knowledge representation
Rule-based programs
Frames, word-vectors, scripts, semantic nets
Logic and the semantic web
Computer vision
The frame problem
Agents and distributed cognition
Machine learning
Generalist systems
The dream revitalized
Missing dimensions
Chapter 3 Language, creativity, emotion
Language
Creativity
AI and emotion
Chapter 4 Artificial neural networks
The wider implications of ANNs
Parallel distributed processing
Learning in neural networks
Backprop and brains—and deep learning
Network scandal
Connections aren’t everything
Hybrid systems
Chapter 5 Robots and artificial life
Situated robots and interesting insects
Evolutionary AI
Self-organization
Chapter 6 But is it intelligence, really?
The Turing Test
The many problems of consciousness
Machine consciousness
AI and phenomenal consciousness
Virtual machines and the mind–body problem
Meaning and understanding
Is neuroprotein essential?
Not just brain, but body too
Moral community
Morality, freedom, and self
Mind and life
The great philosophical divide
Chapter 7 The Singularity
Prophets of the Singularity
Competing predictions
Scepticism defended
Whole-brain emulation
What we should be worrying about
What’s being done about it
References
Further reading
Index
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