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  • Turing's Vision

    How AI is Shaping the World

    by Pietro Perconti, Alessio Plebe ...
    Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives. The rapid advancement of AI is eroding one by one all the cornerstones considered unique of human nature: language, consciousness, creativity, and moral responsibility. The book argues that the revolution we are facing is driven by Alan Turing's "vision". This vision rests on the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Future of the Artificial Mind

    by Alessio Plebe, Pietro Perconti ...
    The Future of the Artificial Mind is about the social and technological challenges posed by the new wave of artificial intelligence, both from a technical and a cognitive perspective. Deep neural networks have brought about tremendous technological improvements. This renaissance in artificial intelligence, after decades of stagnation, has enabled new technologies capable of surpassing human ... Read more

    $236.99 CAD

  • Neurosemantics

    Neural Processes and the Construction of Linguistic Meaning

    by Alessio Plebe, Vivian M. De La Cruz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the concept of “ Neurosemantics”, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its classical sense, as the meaning of language, explained in terms of neural processes. The book explores this second sense of neurosemantics, yet in doing so, it addresses much of the first meaning as well ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    Turing's Vision

    How AI is Shaping the World

    by Pietro Perconti, Alessio Plebe ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 59 min

    Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives. The rapid advancement of AI is eroding one by one all the cornerstones considered unique of human nature: language, consciousness, creativity, and moral responsibility. The book argues that the revolution we are facing is driven by Alan Turing's "vision". This vision rests on the ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • AI

    Its nature and future

    by Margaret A. Boden ...
    The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language from a fresh angle. As a concept, Artificial Intelligence ... Read more

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  • The World Behind the World

    Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

    by Erik Hoel ...
    From a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist comes a fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revolutionizing neuroscience and the future of technology—transforming the very fabric of our society.Throughout history, two perspectives on the world have dueled in our minds: the extrinsic—that of mechanism and physics—and the intrinsic—that of feelings, thoughts, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William M. Ramsey ...
    Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially modeling ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including ... Read more

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  • Environments of Intelligence

    From natural information to artificial interaction

    by Hajo Greif ...
    What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily ... Read more

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  • Getting Darwin Wrong

    Why Evolutionary Psychology Won't Work

    by Brendan Wallace ...
    Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP won't work either, since it is based on a fallacious view of the mind/brain.The book, which is ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art, Technology, Consciousness

    Mind@large

    by Roy Ascott ...
    Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location. Its focus is both on and beyond the digital culture, seeking to assimilate new ideas emanating from the physical sciences as well as embracing spiritual and artistic aspects of human experience. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information

    Edited by Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Information and communication technology occupies a central place in the modern world, with society becoming increasingly dependent on it every day. It is therefore unsurprising that it has become a growing subject area in contemporary philosophy, which relies heavily on informational concepts. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information is an outstanding reference source to the key topics ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD