Talking With Computers
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The Most Human Human
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Author : Brian Christian
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2012-03-06
The Most Human Human written by Brian Christian and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Psychology categories.
A playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man's efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking exploration of what it means to be human in the first place. “Terrific. ... Art and science meet an engaged mind and the friction produces real fire.” —The New Yorker Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing, for the “Most Human Human.” Brian Christian—a young poet with degrees in computer science and philosophy—was chosen to participate in a recent competition. This
The Most Human Human
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Author : Brian Christian
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 2011
The Most Human Human written by Brian Christian and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Human beings categories.
In 1950 famed mathematician Alan Turing predicted that computers would someday become so sophisticated that we "will be able to speak of machines thinking." The Turing test, which puts his theory on the line, has become the holy grail of artificial intelligence scientists. While no program has yet passed Turing's test, several have come close and are increasingly adapted by corporations, the entertainment industry, and even the medical community as human substitutes. Each year the AI community convenes for the Loebner Prize, the field's most anticipated and controversial event, where the Turing test is administered and the most advanced computer programs compete to fool a panel of judges into mistaking them for actual people. The program that wins gets the so-called Most Human Computer Award. But there is a bizarre and fascinating catch: Real people compete, too, and the one who prevails wins the Most Human Human Award. Embarking on a quest to figure out the essence of that honor, the author ranges across a dizzying array of surprising realms: poetry, pick-up artists, long-distance calls, existentialism, customer service, chess, and love. His discoveries are a revelation: What Turing conceived as the test of artificial intelligence ultimately becomes a means of measuring ourselves. In examining the philosophical, biological, and moral questions the Turing test poses, the ultimate subject of the book is humanity- an attempt to fill in the blank in the ancient riddle, "the human being in the only animal that.....". The space is usually filled with the verb "thinks", but if a computer passes the Turing test, what then can we say about the essence of being human? This book is an energetic , engrossing, intellectual tour of the provocative implications these questions have for our daily life. -- from Book Jacket
Talking With Computers In Natural Language
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Author : Ėduard Viktorovich Popov
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1986
Talking With Computers In Natural Language written by Ėduard Viktorovich Popov and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Computers categories.
Intended for a wide circle of specialists in automated systems. Above all, however, it is intended for those who work on systems for communicating with machines.
The Lost History Of Talking To Computers
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Author : William Meisel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-03-17
The Lost History Of Talking To Computers written by William Meisel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-17 with Computers categories.
Much science fiction has humans talking to computers, an early example being HAL in the movie 2001 in 1968. That vision motivated many people to attempt making the imagined technology real, including the author, who founded a company developing speech recognition technology in the 1980s. Speech recognition was an early part of Artificial Intelligence, computers doing a task that had previously been exclusive to humans, and proved to be more difficult than early pioneers expected. The Lost History of "Talking to Computers" documents 27 years of those efforts; the source of the history is the author's 309 monthly issues of a newsletter tracking the hundreds of companies trying to make a business out of this challenging technology. Today, we talk to computers frequently on our smartphones (e.g., Apple's Siri or Google Assistant) or to a home speaker (e.g., Amazon's Alexa) and often when we telephone a customer service number. Most doctors use computer transcription of their notes for Electronic Healthcare Systems. Speech recognition is teaching how to speak a new language and finding specific content in a video file. How did we get here and where will it take us? What can we learn from this history that has implications for the huge investments in more general AI today? Readers will be amazed at how many companies were inspired by this challenge beginning more than three decades ago.
The Lost History Of Talking To Computers
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Author : William Meisel
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2025-03-17
The Lost History Of Talking To Computers written by William Meisel and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Much science fiction has humans talking to computers, an early example being HAL in the movie 2001 in 1968. That vision motivated many people to attempt making the imagined technology real, including the author, who founded a company developing speech recognition technology in the 1980s. Speech recognition was an early part of Artificial Intelligence, computers doing a task that had previously been exclusive to humans, and proved to be more difficult than early pioneers expected. The Lost History of “Talking to Computers” documents 27 years of those efforts; the source of the history is the author’s 309 monthly issues of a newsletter tracking the hundreds of companies trying to make a business out of this challenging technology. Today, we talk to computers frequently on our smartphones (e.g., Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant) or to a home speaker (e.g., Amazon’s Alexa) and often when we telephone a customer service number. Most doctors use computer transcription of their notes for Electronic Healthcare Systems. Speech recognition is teaching how to speak a new language and finding specific content in a video file. How did we get here and where will it take us? What can we learn from this history that has implications for the huge investments in more general AI today? Readers will be amazed at how many companies were inspired by this challenge beginning more than three decades ago.
Artificial Unintelligence
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Author : Meredith Broussard
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-01-29
Artificial Unintelligence written by Meredith Broussard and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-29 with Computers categories.
A software developer’s misadventures in computer programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence reveal why we should never assume technology always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally—hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners—that we have stopped demanding that our technology actually work. Broussard, a software developer and journalist, reminds us that there are fundamental limits to what we can (and should) do with technology. With this book, she offers a guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology—and issues a warning that we should never assume that computers always get things right. Making a case against technochauvinism—the belief that technology is always the solution—Broussard argues that it’s just not true that social problems would inevitably retreat before a digitally enabled Utopia. To prove her point, she undertakes a series of adventures in computer programming. She goes for an alarming ride in a driverless car, concluding “the cyborg future is not coming any time soon”; uses artificial intelligence to investigate why students can’t pass standardized tests; deploys machine learning to predict which passengers survived the Titanic disaster; and attempts to repair the U.S. campaign finance system by building AI software. If we understand the limits of what we can do with technology, Broussard tells us, we can make better choices about what we should do with it to make the world better for everyone.
Talking With Computers In Natural Language
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Author : Eduard V. Popov
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1986
Talking With Computers In Natural Language written by Eduard V. Popov and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Computers categories.
The growing efficiency and lower prices of computers make it possible to apply them more widely in the economy. However, the wide use of computers in every day life is hindered by a number of factors which constitute what we shall call the "problem of contact" or of "talking". The difficulty is that languages used by computers differ substantially from users' languages and are not understood by specialists who are unfamiliar with programming. This is why those specialists who use computers need the help of programmers to communicate. Since this form of communication has many more or less obvious shortcomings, great efforts have been made to find a solution to the problem of contact. Two ap proaches can be distinguished here: (1) making the computer language similar to the natural language; (2) making the user's language resemble that of computers through formalizing the former. This book deals with the first approach. We shall consider those systems which make it possible to "talk" with the user in limited natural language (LNL). The term "natural language" (NL) has been used in the title of this book instead of LNL. The reason for not using the term "limited natural language" is that this term has two meanings: (1) a dialect of a natural language; (2) a formal language whose operators are expressed by words taken from a natural language (e. g.
The Most Human Human
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Author : Brian Christian
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-03-01
The Most Human Human written by Brian Christian and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Psychology categories.
A playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man's efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking exploration of what it means to be human in the first place. “Terrific. ... Art and science meet an engaged mind and the friction produces real fire.” —The New Yorker Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing, for the “Most Human Human.” Brian Christian—a young poet with degrees in computer science and philosophy—was chosen to participate in a recent competition. This
Deep Thinking
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Author : Garry Kasparov
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-06-01
Deep Thinking written by Garry Kasparov and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with Computers categories.
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at the point where it could best human intellect. It wasn't a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man's fight against the machines. Chess has long been the fulcrum in development of machine intelligence; the hoax automaton 'The Turk' in the 18th century and Alan Turing's first chess program in 1952 were two early examples of the quest for machines to think like humans -- a talent we measured by their ability to beat their creators at chess. As the pre-eminent chessmaster of the 80s and 90s, it was Kasparov's blessing and his curse to play against each generation's strongest computer champions, contributing to their development and advancing the field. Like all passionate competitors, Kasparov has taken his defeat and learned from it. He has devoted much energy to devising ways in which humans can partner with machines in order to produce results better than either can achieve alone. During the twenty years since playing Deep Blue, he's played both with and against machines, learning a great deal about our vital relationship with our most remarkable creations. Ultimately, he's become convinced that by embracing the competition between human and machine intelligence, we can spend less time worrying about being replaced and more thinking of new challenges to conquer. In this breakthrough book, Kasparov tells his side of the story of Deep Blue for the first time -- what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent -- the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him. But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally, and how he's evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks, and engineers of cutting edge robotics.
Speak
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Author : Louisa Hall
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-07
Speak written by Louisa Hall and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Fiction categories.
She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl's diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing's conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and in warning. When machines learn to speak, who decides what it means to be human? 'TRANSFIXING' New York Times 'BRILLIANT' Huffington Post 'INCREDIBLE' Buzzfeed 'HYPNOTIC' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE' NPR