Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time.
Have you ever wondered what the future will look like? Have you ever wondered what technology and innovation is round the next corner and whether it'll provide an existence of...
This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement – a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future.
David Mann, Arch Roberts, Andy Birtwell, Leanne O'Shea, Sandra Figgess, Gabe Phillips, Judy Ryde, Liz Savage, Deb Uhlman, Peter Hawkins, Ruth Finar, Sue Congram, Mark Nicolson, Nelly Uhlenkott, Piers Parlett, Jo O'Brien, Michael O'Brien ...
Much gratitude to the English Department at the University of Southern California for inviting me to join the department and guiding me toward success, especially David St. John, Karen Tongson, Elda María Román, ...
IBM's Watson computer famously triumphed in the trivia game of Jeopardy against champion human opponents. Yet Watson also produced a spectacularly incorrect answer during its winning match. Under the category of US Cities, the question ...
The collection includes an extensive conversation between Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that delineates Wynter’s engagement with writers such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aimé Césaire, among others; the interview also ...
This volume consists of fourteen chapters, divided into four different parts. The first part explores the challenges that contemporary technology poses with regard to human self-understanding.
This volume engages with post-humanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence.
In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human.