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Originally published in 1987 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was one of the most hotly debated subjects of the moment; there was widespread feeling that it was a field whose ‘time had come’ that intelligent machines lay ‘just around the corner’. Moreover with the onset of the revolution in information technology and the proclamation from all corners that we were moving into an ‘information society’ developments in AI and advanced computing were seen in many countries as having both strategic and economic importance. Yet aside from the glare of publicity that tends to surround new scientific ideas or technologies it must be remembered that AI was a relative newcomer among the sciences; that it had often been the subject of bitter controversy; and that though it had been promising to create intelligent machines for some 40 years prior to publication many believe that it had actually displayed very little substantive progress. With this background in mind the aim of this collection of essays was to take a novel look at AI. Rather than following the path of old well-trodden arguments about definitions of intelligence or the status of computer chess programs the objective was to bring new perspectives to the subject in order to present it in a different light. Indeed instead of simply adding to the endless wrangling ‘for’ and ‘against’ AI the source of such divisions is made a topic for analysis in its own right. Drawing on ideas from the philosophy and sociology of scientific knowledge this collection therefore broke new ground. Moreover although a great deal had been written about the social and cultural impact of AI little had been said of the culture of AI scientists themselves – including their discourse and style of thought as well as the choices judgements negotiations and competitive struggles for resources that had shaped the genesis and development of the paradigmatic structure of their discipline at the time. Yet sociologists of science have demonstrated that the analysis of factors such as these is a necessary part of understanding the development of scientific knowledge. Hence it was hoped that this collection would help to redress the imbalance and provide a broader and more interesting picture of AI. | The Question of Artificial Intelligence Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives
Routledge The Question Of Artificial Intelligence Philosophical And Sociological Perspectives Size 40 09781138585348
Originally published in 1987 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was one of the most hotly debated subjects of the moment; there was widespread feeling that it was a field whose ‘time had come’ that intelligent machines lay ‘just around the corner’. Moreover with the onset of the revolution in information technology and the proclamation from all corners that we were moving into an ‘information society’ developments in AI and advanced computing were seen in many countries as having both strategic and economic importance. Yet aside from the glare of publicity that tends to surround new scientific ideas or technologies it must be remembered that AI was a relative newcomer among the sciences; that it had often been the subject of bitter controversy; and that though it had been promising to create intelligent machines for some 40 years prior to publication many believe that it had actually displayed very little substantive progress. With this background in mind the aim of this collection of essays was to take a novel look at AI. Rather than following the path of old well-trodden arguments about definitions of intelligence or the status of computer chess programs the objective was to bring new perspectives to the subject in order to present it in a different light. Indeed instead of simply adding to the endless wrangling ‘for’ and ‘against’ AI the source of such divisions is made a topic for analysis in its own right. Drawing on ideas from the philosophy and sociology of scientific knowledge this collection therefore broke new ground. Moreover although a great deal had been written about the social and cultural impact of AI little had been said of the culture of AI scientists themselves – including their discourse and style of thought as well as the choices judgements negotiations and competitive struggles for resources that had shaped the genesis and development of the paradigmatic structure of their discipline at the time. Yet sociologists of science have demonstrated that the analysis of factors such as these is a necessary part of understanding the development of scientific knowledge. Hence it was hoped that this collection would help to redress the imbalance and provide a broader and more interesting picture of AI. | The Question of Artificial Intelligence Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives
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