1st Edition
Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution Between Catastrophe and Utopia
By Shalom Lappin
Copyright 2025
138 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
138 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
138 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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After many years during which it languished in relative obscurity, in remote classrooms of computer science departments and in small prototype projects for tech companies, artificial intelligence (AI) is now a searingly hot topic across the media. Yet much of the public discussion is so feverish that an understanding of the basic scientific and engineering elements of the field is easily lost,... Read more
Chapter 1 ◾ The Early Years
Chapter 2 ◾ The Deep Learning Revolution
Chapter 3 ◾ What Can Deep Neural Networks Do for Us?
Chapter 4 ◾ Risks Imagined
Chapter 5 ◾ Risks Actual
Chapter 6 ◾ Towards a Rational Public Policy on AI
Chapter 7 ◾ Conclusion
Biography
Shalom Lappin is Professor of Natural Language Processing in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics in Informatics at King’s College London, and Scientific Researcher in CLASP at the University of Gothenburg. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
