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Beyond Artificial Intelligence

The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide

  • Presents what comes beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide
  • Edited collection of papers presented at the conference "Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams" held in Pilsen in November 2012
  • Written by leading experts in the field

Part of the book series: Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics (TIEI, volume 9)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-7
  2. The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide

    • Kevin Warwick
    Pages 1-10
  3. How We’re Predicting AI – or Failing to

    • Stuart Armstrong, Kaj Sotala
    Pages 11-29
  4. Moral Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence: Moral AI?

    • Julian Savulescu, Hannah Maslen
    Pages 79-95
  5. Emotion, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

    • Kevin LaGrandeur
    Pages 97-109
  6. A Visit on the Uncanny Hill

    • Petr Švarný
    Pages 133-142
  7. Desire-Based Model of Reasoning

    • Ivo Pezlar
    Pages 143-157
  8. A Computational Behavior Model for Life-Like Intelligent Agents

    • Mohammadreza Alidoust, Modjtaba Rouhani
    Pages 159-175
  9. Biological and Artificial Machines

    • Vít Bartoš
    Pages 201-210
  10. Naturalness of Artificial Intelligence

    • Jan Romportl
    Pages 211-216
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219

About this book

This book is an edited collection of chapters based on the papers presented at the conference “Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams” held in Pilsen in November 2012. The aim of the conference was to question deep-rooted ideas of artificial intelligence and cast critical reflection on methods standing at its foundations.

Artificial Dreams epitomize our controversial quest for non-biological intelligence and therefore the contributors of this book tried to fully exploit such a controversy in their respective chapters, which resulted in an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts from engineering, natural sciences and humanities.

While pursuing the Artificial Dreams, it has become clear that it is still more and more difficult to draw a clear divide between human and machine. And therefore this book tries to portrait such an image of what lies beyond artificial intelligence: we can see the disappearing human-machine divide, a very important phenomenon of nowadays technological society, the phenomenon which is often uncritically praised, or hypocritically condemned. And so this phenomenon found its place in the subtitle of the whole volume as well as in the title of the chapter of Kevin Warwick, one of the keynote speakers at “Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams”.

Editors and Affiliations

  • New Technologies Research Centre & Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic

    Jan Romportl

  • New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic

    Eva Zackova

  • Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic

    Jozef Kelemen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond Artificial Intelligence

  • Book Subtitle: The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide

  • Editors: Jan Romportl, Eva Zackova, Jozef Kelemen

  • Series Title: Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09668-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09667-4Published: 22 August 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34991-6Published: 22 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09668-1Published: 11 August 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2193-9411

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-942X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 219

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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