The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially modeling intelligence is offering new insights into the human mind and revealing new forms mentality can take. This volume of original essays presents the state of the art in AI, surveying the foundations of the discipline, major theories of mental architecture, the principal areas of research, and extensions of AI such as artificial life. With a focus on theory rather than technical and applied issues, the volume will be valuable not only to people working in AI, but also to those in other disciplines wanting an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the field.

Accessible and student-friendly, focusing on key topics and avoiding technical jargon
Includes supporting material, such as annotated chapter-specific further reading sections and an extensive glossary
Provides concise, authoritative, and up-to-date coverage of a rapidly developing and expanding field

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Published: June 2014
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521691918
Length: 365 pages
Dimensions: 245 × 173 × 20 mm
Weight: 0.64kg
Contains: 29 b/w illus. 1 table
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Contents

Introduction Keith Frankish and William M. Ramsey
Part I. Foundations:
1. History, motivations, and core themes Stan Franklin
2. Philosophical foundations Konstantine Arkoudas and Selmer Bringsjord
3. Philosophical challenges William S. Robinson
Part II. Architectures:
4. GOFAI Margaret A. Boden
5. Connectionism and neural networks Ron Sun
6. Dynamical systems and embedded cognition Randall D. Beer
Part III. Dimensions:
7. Learning David Danks
8. Perception and computer vision Markus Vincze, Sven Wachsmuth and Gerhard Sagerer
9. Reasoning and decision making Eyal Amir
10. Language and communication Yorick Wilks
11. Actions and agents Eduardo Alonso
12. Artificial emotions and machine consciousness Matthias Scheutz
Part IV. Extensions:
13. Robotics Phil Husbands
14. Artificial life Mark A. Bedau
15. The ethics of artificial intelligence Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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Keith Frankish, William M. Ramsey, Stan Franklin, Konstantine Arkoudas, Selmer Bringsjord, William S. Robinson, Margaret A. Boden, Ron Sun, Randall D. Beer, David Danks, Markus Vincze, Sven Wachsmuth, Gerhard Sagerer, Eyal Amir, Yorick Wilks, Eduardo Alonso, Matthias Scheutz, Phil Husbands, Mark A. Bedau, Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Keith Frankish , The Open University, Milton Keynes
Keith Frankish is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Open University and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Program in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of Mind and Supermind (Cambridge, 2004) and Consciousness (2005). He is co-editor of In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (with Jonathan St B. T. Evans, 2009), New Waves in Philosophy of Action (with Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff, 2010) and The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science (with William Ramsey, Cambridge, 2012).
William M. Ramsey , University of Nevada, Las Vegas
William M. Ramsey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Representation Reconsidered (Cambridge, 2007) and co-editor of Philosophy and Connectionist Theory (with David Rumelhart and Stephen Stich, 1991), Rethinking Intuition (with Michael DePaul, 1998) and The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science (with Keith Frankish, Cambridge, 2012).

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