: James Hendler, Alice Mulvehill
: Social Machines The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity
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Will your next doctor be a human being-or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it?
This book introduces the reader to the pitfalls and promises of artificial intelligence (AI) in its modern incarnation and the growing trend of systems to 'reach off the Web' into the real world. The convergence of AI, social networking, and modern computing is creating an historic inflection point in the partnership between huma
Contents at a Glance5
Contents6
About the Authors9
About the Technical Reviewer11
Acknowledgments12
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why This Book?15
Who Are the Authors?16
Why Read This Book?17
A Brief History of AI19
Social Machines21
Risks and Challenges22
What Lies Ahead for the Reader23
What This Book Is Not About25
Chapter 2: Who Will Be Your Next Doctor?27
Going to the Doctor27
Could an Intelligent Computer Be Your Next Doctor?29
The Situation Today29
The Not Too Distant Future29
Cognitive Computing Technology30
From Individual to Network33
Other AI Systems in Healthcare34
Social Media and Trend Analytics35
Web-Based (Healthcare) Applications37
Personalized (Healthcare) Applications38
So Who Will Be Your Next Doctor?39
Chapter 3: The Games We Play42
Obvious Differences?42
Computers Play Chess45
Starting Simple: Tic-tac-toe47
From Tic-Tac-Toe to Chess52
Why Computers Are Good at Chess56
Go, the Current Challenge59
Other Games61
How Do Humans Play Games?65
Beyond Games68
Chapter 4: The Limits of Humans70
Problem Solving70
Memory and Aging73
Emotion and Stress75
Socialization and Mobility78
Humans and Tools79
Can Machines Augment Human Limits?80
Chapter 5: What Computers Can t Do Yet84
Getting Machines to Understand the Way People Use Language85
Ambiguity in Language88
Understanding the World We Live In92
Encoding World Knowledge93
Knowledge and Memory96
Understanding What They Perceive98
The Problem of Context100
Procedural Systems101
Declarative Systems101
Learning Systems103
What About Creativity?107
Chapter 6: Augmenting Human Capabilities with AI109
Human Enhancements: Now and the Near Future109
Enhanced Problem Solving110
Fatigue and Stress111
Individualized Support Technology113
Building User Interfaces115
Human Enhancements: Near Future and Beyond117
Personal Assistants118
Enhancing Memory120
Beyond the Individual121
Chapter 7: Social Machines: Embracing the Blur124
Human Computation127
Games with a Purpose and Citizen Science130
Wikipedia: The People s Encyclopedia135
Artificial Intelligence Needs Social Machines140
Watson and Wikipedia140
Deep Learning and Labeled Data142
Social Machines Need AI144
Chapter 8: Social Challenges for the Social Machine148
The Technology Development Cycle149
Technology for the Individual150
AI Technology and Warfare155
Managing Cognitive Support Technology162
Extending and Maintaining Cognitive Computing Technology165
The Limits of Learning167
The Wisdom of the Crowd or the Madness of the Mob170
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Social Machines and the New Future173
Index177