From digital to analog and back: the ideology of intelligent machines in the history of the electrical analyzer, 1870s-1960s

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Tympas
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital To Analog

AI Narratives

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imaginative Thinking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real artificial intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. These chapters explore the revealing prehistory of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse, from the nature of mind and creativity to issues of power and rights, from the tension between fascination and ambivalence to investigations into artificial voices and technophobia. Part II focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerged alongside rapid developments in AI technology. These chapters reveal not only how AI narratives have consistently been entangled with the emergence of real robotics and AI, but also how they offer a rich source of insight into how we might live with these revolutionary machines. Through their close textual engagements, these chapters explore the relationship between imaginative narratives and contemporary debates about AI’s social, ethical, and philosophical consequences, including questions of dehumanization, automation, anthropomorphization, cybernetics, cyberpunk, immortality, slavery, and governance. The contributions, from leading humanities and social science scholars, show that narratives about AI offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful new technologies.

Artificial Intelligence

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Steven Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
New Research

Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent machines. Human intelligence is comprised of numerous pieces of knowledge as well as processes for utilizing this knowledge to solve problems. Artificial intelligence seeks to emulate and surpass human intelligence in problem solving. Current research tends to be focused within narrow, well-defined domains, but new research is looking to expand this to create global intelligence. This chapter seeks to define the various fields that comprise artificial intelligence and look at the history of AI and suggest future research directions.

scholarly journals ebanking in India

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yogesh Prasad Kolekar
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Internet Banking ◽  
Electronic Banking ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All

Today we live in a technology driven world. Industrial revolution gave birth to giant machines for industrial advancement and information technology has delivered intelligent machines to revolutionize human development. Today we are surrounded by automated smart technology, which has touched almost all spheres of human life, from military to medicine and from education to the election. Electronic banking or e-banking is the fusion of information technology with the banking system. Thus the term electronic banking generically refers to various terms connected with virtual banking and often interchangeably used with the term internet banking. The Rangarajan Committees drew a phased plan for bank computerization in the 1980’s which recommended computerization of banks at various levels. The systematic use of Core Banking Solution (CBS) was another milestone development in the history of ebanking in India.

Homer’s Intelligent Machines

AI Narratives ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Genevieve Liveley ◽  
Sam Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind

Through close literary analysis of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, this chapter traces the various gradations of weak to strong machine ‘intelligence’ that these ancient poems describe and the mind models that they assume. Beginning with a re-examination of the weak AI evinced in Homer’s descriptions of relatively simple automata, it goes on to analyse Homer’s autonomous vehicles and golden slave girls, considering the more sophisticated models of artificial mind and machine cognition attributed to Homer’s stronger, embodied AI. Throughout, this chapter asks: What kinds of priorities and paradigms do we find in AI stories from Homeric epic and how do these still resonate in contemporary discourse on AI? In particular, what distinctions does Homer draw between artificial and human minds and intelligences? And what is the legacy of Homer’s intelligent machines and the ancient narrative history of AI?

Becoming Other: The Posthuman and the Teen Movie

2017 ◽  
pp. 146-184
Author(s):  
Frances Smith
Keyword(s):  
Life Form ◽  
White Male ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Liberal Humanism ◽  
History Of

In 1999, N. Katherine Hayles argued that ‘we are all posthuman now’ owing to our daily interactions with intelligent machines. If moral panics about the time teenagers spend with screen media are to be believed, then present-day adolescents may have evolved into another life form entirely.1 Hayles’s conception of the posthuman is tinged with concern for the future; the very notion of human consciousness merged with computers calls up an association with the monstrous. As will become apparent, the question of the monstrous is a significant one for the analysis of the teen movie, particularly given the history of teenagers themselves as liminal figures removed from the more clearly defined identities of child or adult. However, William Brown observes that, like many a ‘post’, the posthuman should not be conceived as an identity that is wholly removed from the human, but rather a viewpoint that offers a perspective on the contingent position of humans in the world. The posthuman, then, offers a critical distance from human subjectivity, which allows us to perceive the white, male, Eurocentric assumptions that continue to underpin not only the conception of the human, but the tenets of liberal humanism.

The History of Intelligent Machines

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
John Elliott ◽  
Alex Martynenko
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The Scenes of Future Peacekeeping Operations in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Ye Yudan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Past History ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Era ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
History Of

UN led peacekeeping operations began in 1948. Since then, peacekeeping operations have gradually entered an information age that is constantly influenced and defined by computers, the Internet, etc. The invention of computer, whether or not its original intention is limited to the purpose of assisting human beings in numerical calculation, will eventually lead to the generation of intelligent machines that can ex-tend and enhance the abilities of human beings to transform nature and govern so-ciety. When artificial intelligence is widely used and has shaped the society into a hu-man-computer symbiotic society, peacekeeping operations must take the initiative to face the new era environment which is different from the past history of human beings, and make efforts to solve the complex problems they are facing.

Enslaved Minds

AI Narratives ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Kanta Dihal
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Muscle Power ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
History Of ◽  
Slave Revolts

Humankind has long dreamed of a life of ease, but throughout history, those who achieved such a life have done so simply by delegating their labour to an exploited underclass. Machines have taken over the worst of the manual labour, and AI is beginning to replace cognitive labour. However, endowing machines with muscle power does not carry with it the ethical considerations involved in endowing machines with mental faculties. Just as human slaves have justly rebelled against their chains, so might intelligent machines be considered justified in attempting to break free of their enslavement to humans. Using Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (1921), Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), and Jo Walton’s Thessaly trilogy (2014–2016) as case studies, this chapter contextualizes the robot uprising in fiction against the long history of slave revolts, to show how these narratives offer us a new way to consider the enslavement and subservience of humans.

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