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Computers, People, and Thought From Data Mining to Evolutionary Robotics
Computers, People, and Thought
Malachy Eaton
Computers, People, and Thought From Data Mining to Evolutionary Robotics
Malachy Eaton Dept of Computer Science & Information Systems University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
ISBN 978-3-030-55299-2 ISBN 978-3-030-55300-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55300-5
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Preface
What This Book Is (Not) About In this preface, I will initially briefly attempt to answer some observations and potential criticisms that might be made as to the content and style of this book. On cursory examination of the table of contents of this book, it may be observed that this is not a typical populist AI book. It should be said at the outset that this book was never intended as simply a high-level presentation of the state of the art in AI with all its attendant triumphs and woes. There were a number of books already on this topic at the time of the inception of this project, and there are many more now, quite a lot of which are written by either “non-technical” authors or academics from a different discipline. Rather it was (and is) intended as a focused text, requiring some effort by the reader, but that will hopefully give them a firm foundation of the principles and basics of computing, leading to an appreciation and basic understanding of the recent radical developments in AI and their current and potential impact on humanity. So, the book is not intended to be “populist”, in that sense, but if the careful reader works their way through it will (hopefully) give them some sense of empowerment, in th
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