I. OMENS ast year, a curious non ction book became a Times best-seller: a dense
meditation on arti cial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an …

The purpose of this talk is to surveyrecent literature in artificial intelligence research, and to
delineate and assess trends in the research. For an infant field of research that has been …

The science of AI was born a little over 60 years ago, but for most of that time its
achievements were modest. In 2012 it experienced a big bang, when a branch of statistics …

Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer
scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all …

Could a computer have a mind? What kind of machine would this be? Exactly what do we
mean by'mind'anyway? The notion of the'intelligent'machine, whilst continuing to feature in …

Throughout the scientific discoveries of human history, research paradigms have undergone
profound changes. 1 As shown in Figure 1, from empirical paradigm which relies on …

Rather than being a third edition of< __? __Pub Fmt italic> Artificial intelligence,< __?
__Pub Fmt/italic> this “textbook” is almost entirely new. The quotes are intentional. The book …

As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and
therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics< Dreyfus, 1972>,< Lighthill, 1973> have …

There are many stories to tell about the first fifty years of AI. One story is about AI as one of
the big forces of innovation in information technology. It is now forgotten that initially …