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Systems Become Experts
Knowledge-based expert systems are computer programs that store and accumulate knowledge about a specific area, from which knowledge automatically...
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Computers Learn to Speak
Against the background of knowledge-based systems, Turing’s famous question, which moved early AI researchers, can be taken up again: Can these...
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Robots Become Social
With the increasing complexity and automation of technology, robots are becoming service providers for industrial society. The evolution of living...
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Introduction: What Is AI?
That wasn’t a science fiction scenario. These were AI technologies that are technically feasible today and are being developed as part of computer...
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Algorithms Simulate Evolution
Information processing with computers and humans is reproduced with artificial or natural languages. They are only special cases of symbolic...
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A Short History of the AI
In ancient language, an automaton is an apparatus that can act independently (autonomously). According to ancient understanding, self-activity...
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Neuronal Networks Simulate Brains
Brains are examples of complex information systems based on neuronal information processing. What distinguishes them from other information systems...
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Infrastructures Become Intelligent
The nervous system of human civilization is now the Internet. Up to now, the Internet has only been a (“stupid”) database with signs and images whose...
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Artificial Intelligence and Responsibility
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an international future topic in research and technology, economy, and society. But research and technical innovation...
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How Safe Is Artificial Intelligence?
Machine learning dramatically changes our civilization. We rely more and more on efficient algorithms, because otherwise the complexity of our...
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From Natural and Artificial Intelligence to Superintelligence?
Classical AI research is based on the capabilities of a program-controlled computer which, according to Church’s thesis, is in principle equivalent...
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Logical Thinking Becomes Automatic
In the first phase of AI research, the search for general problem-solving methods was successful at least in formal logic. A mechanical procedure was...
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Colonizing the Mind
With a metaphor destined to become very famous, in 1942, the famed neurophysiologist Charles S. Sherrington defined the brain as “the enchanted...
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The New Flesh Rising
Faster than light, able to fly, practically invulnerable, Superman is the forefather of a long series of characters distinguished not only by a more...
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All Hail the Technological Singularity
The hyper-technological avalanche that will swamp us, transfiguring us, already has a date of arrival, 2045, and also a name: the Singularity.
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The Bright Day of the Soul
Just to be blunt, what is the point of living forever if you cannot live happily ever after? In other words, do we want our ordinary lives, with all...
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Political and Economic Reform in the Fourth Wave
Advocates of free market capitalism often invoke it as if it were a sanctified and immutable religious belief system that could not and should not...
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The Prime Drivers of Change
As already discussed in Chaps. 1 and 2 , the clock will run out soon on a...
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Pandemic
Pandemics such as the Black Death have altered the course of history. The ravages of the Spanish Flu pandemic were so terrible that at least one...
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Life … But Not as We Know It
It’s a possibility many of us would like to believe: that somewhere in this world there still exist unknown creatures—Bigfoot, Yeti, the monster in...