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The Digital Ape

How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines

By: Sir Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

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The Digital Ape

How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines

By: Sir Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control--in our private lives, in employment, in politics--and make the best of the wonderful opportunities, will determine our collective future well-being. Chapter by chapter, The Digital Ape outline how our choices and the use and adaptation of the tools we've created can lead to opportunities for the environment (both built and natural), health, and our security. Shadbolt and Hampson are uniquely well-suited to draw on historical precedent and technical know-how to offer a vision of the future that is exciting, rather than nerve-wracking, to contemplate.

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Oxford University Press

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0190933003

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Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'96, Nottingham, UK, May 14 - 17, 1996. Proceedings

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O'Hara,Guus Schreiber

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Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'96, Nottingham, UK, May 14 - 17, 1996. Proceedings

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O'Hara,Guus Schreiber

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW '96, held in Nottingham, UK, in May 1996. The 23 revised full papers included address the most relevant theoretical and applicational aspects of knowledge acquisition with a certain emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge for the modelling or automation of complex problem-solving behaviour. The volume is organized in sections on theoretical and general issues, eliciting knowledge from textual or other sources, data-mining, group elicitation, and planning.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540612734

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As If Human

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, transparent, and accountable? How do we harness this extraordinary technology to empower rather than oppress? Despite increasingly sophisticated programming, artificial intelligences share none of our essential human characteristics—sentience, physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, versatile general intelligence. However, Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson argue, if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. The authors go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence.

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Yale University Press

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0300277695

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9780300277692

Bad Harvest

The Timber Trade and the Degradation of Global Forests

By: Nigel Dudley,Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud,Francis Sullivan

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Bad Harvest

The Timber Trade and the Degradation of Global Forests

By: Nigel Dudley,Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud,Francis Sullivan

The world's forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and with disastrous consequences. Demand for wood and paper products ranks high amongst the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and is now the major cause of loss in those forests richest in wildlife. There is a great deal to be done to improve the timber industry before our forests are safely and sustainably managed. Bad Harvest presents an incisive account of the role that the timber trade has played in the loss and degradation of forests around the world. It examines the environmental consequences of the trade on boreal, temporal and tropical regions, and its impacts for local people working and living in the forests. It also looks at the changing nature of the trade, and assesses current national and international initiatives to address the impacts of deforestation. Finally, the authors show how things could be improved in the future, by presenting a new strategy for sustainable forest management. Based on 15 years of extensive research - particularly work carried out by the World Wide Fund for Nature - Bad Harvest is essential reading on the subject; not only for environmentalists, but also for those in the timber trade seeking to improve the management and reputation of their product.

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254

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Routledge

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1134164459

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9781134164455

Understanding Housing Defects

By: Duncan Marshall,Derek Worthing,Roger Heath,Nigel Dann

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Understanding Housing Defects

By: Duncan Marshall,Derek Worthing,Roger Heath,Nigel Dann

Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. For this new edition, many of the chapters have been substantially updated and new photographs have been added. There are four new chapters covering: How defects are defined An overview of building and architectural history External joinery and painted finishes Environmental and health- related building problems Many of the 21 chapters cover a specific building element and include a brief introduction setting out construction principles and the evolution of current practice. All of the chapters consider the identification, cause and diagnosis of common (and sometimes not so common) defects. This book is a must have for all those students and practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects. Building surveyors, general practice surveyors, architects, estate agents, housing officers and anyone involved in the management and maintenance of property as well as its construction will benefit hugely from this highly informative full-colour text. Written by the authors of The Construction of Houses, the book is also the natural companion to this bestselling textbook.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136153748

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9781136153747

The Coming Storm

Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two

By: Nigel McCrery

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The Coming Storm

Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two

By: Nigel McCrery

The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season. Hitler permitted us almost to complete an exceptionally interesting season, Sir Home Gordon, wrote in the Cricketer magazine, When shall we see the stumps pitched again?As the West Indies touring team canceled their last five matches and sailed home before the U-boat threat developed, the treasures at Lords, including the Ashes, were sent to a secret location for safekeeping. The Marylebone Cricket Club cancelled its tour to India - England played under the MCC banner then.During the ensuing conflict twelve test cricketers (five English, two South Africans, one Australian and one New Zealander) perished together with 130 first class players. In this superbly researched sequel to Final Wicket, covering cricketing fatalities during The Great War, this book reveals each mans career details, including cricketing statistics, and the circumstances of death. There is also a brief history of the game during the War. Arguably the period between the two world wars was the golden age of cricket, and this book honors those who made it so only to die serving their countries in a different way.

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Casemate Publishers

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1526706970

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9781526706973

The Digital Ape

How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines

By: Sir Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

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How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines

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Oxford University Press

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0190932996

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9780190932992

The Spy in the Coffee Machine

The End of Privacy as We Know It

By: Kieron O'Hara,Nigel Shadbolt

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The Spy in the Coffee Machine

The End of Privacy as We Know It

By: Kieron O'Hara,Nigel Shadbolt

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

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175

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Simon and Schuster

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1780747349

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As If Human

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, transparent, and accountable? How do we harness this extraordinary technology to empower rather than oppress? Despite increasingly sophisticated programming, artificial intelligences share none of our essential human characteristics--sentience, physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, versatile general intelligence. However, Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson argue, if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. The authors go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence.

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Yale University Press

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0300268297

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9780300268294

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O’Hara,David De Roure,Wendy Hall

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The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O’Hara,David De Roure,Wendy Hall

Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up, and new social processes enabled, to solve problems, augment reality, create new sources of value, and disrupt existing practice. This book considers what talents one would need to understand or build a social machine, describes the state of the art, and speculates on the future, from the perspective of the EPSRC project SOCIAM – The Theory and Practice of Social Machines. The aim is to develop a set of tools and techniques for investigating, constructing and facilitating social machines, to enable us to narrow down pragmatically what is becoming a wide space, by asking ‘when will it be valuable to use these methods on a sociotechnical system?’ The systems for which the use of these methods adds value are social machines in which there is rich person-to-person communication, and where a large proportion of the machine’s behaviour is constituted by human interaction.

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Springer

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3030108899

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Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'96, Nottingham, UK, May 14 - 17, 1996. Proceedings

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O'Hara,Guus Schreiber

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Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'96, Nottingham, UK, May 14 - 17, 1996. Proceedings

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O'Hara,Guus Schreiber

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The Digital Ape

The Digital Ape

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

As If Human

As If Human

Bad Harvest

Bad Harvest

Understanding Housing Defects

Understanding Housing Defects

The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm

The Digital Ape

The Digital Ape

The Spy in the Coffee Machine

The Spy in the Coffee Machine

As If Human

As If Human

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

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