Mélanie Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell separa la ciencia real de la ciencia ficción en este amplio examen del estado actual de la IA y de cómo está rehaciendo nuestro mundo. Ninguna empresa científica reciente ha resultado tan seductora, aterradora y llena de extravagante

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness In this remarkably clear and companionable book leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large scale complex organized and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological technological and social phenomena seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them Richly illustrated Complexity A Guided Tour winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science offers a wide ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science the current research at the forefront of this field and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time

Melanie Mitchell separa la ciencia real de la ciencia ficción en este amplio examen del estado actual de la inteligencia artificial y de cómo está rehaciendo nuestro mundo. Ninguna empresa científica reciente ha resultado tan seductora, aterradora y llena de extravagantes promesas y frustrantes reveses como la IA. La galardonada cientifica informatica Melanie Mitchell revela su turbulenta historia, la reciente oleada de aparentes exitos, las grandes esperanzas y temores que la rodean, y las cuestiones mas urgentes hoy: ¿hasta que punto son realmente inteligentes los programas de IA? ¿Que pueden hacer realmente? ¿Hasta que punto esperamos que se asemejen a los humanos y cuando debemos preocuparnos de que nos superen? Mitchell presenta los modelos dominantes de la IA y el aprendizaje automatico modernos, describiendo los programas mas avanzados, sus inventores humanos y las lineas de pensamiento historicas que sustentan los logros recientes. Explora la profunda desconexion entre el bombo publicitario y los logros reales de la IA, proporcionando una idea clara de lo que el campo ha logrado y cuanto le queda por recorrer. Una guia indispensable para entender la IA actual, su busqueda de una inteligencia de nivel humano y su impacto en nuestro futuro.

After reading Mitchell s guide you ll know what you don t know and what other people don t know even though they claim to know it And that s invaluable The New York Times A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubbleNo recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence Writing with clarity and passion leading AI researcher Melanie Mitchell offers a captivating account of modern day artificial intelligence Flavoured with personal stories and a twist of humour Artificial Intelligence illuminates the workings of machines that mimic human learning perception language creativity and common sense Weaving together advances in AI with cognitive science and philosophy Mitchell probes the extent to which today s smart machines can actually think or understand and whether AI even requires such elusive human qualities at all Artificial Intelligence A Guide for Thinking Humans provides readers with an accessible and clear eyed view of the AI landscape what the field has actually accomplished how much further it has to go and what it means for all of our futures

After reading Mitchell s guide you ll know what you don t know and what other people don t know even though they claim to know it And that s invaluable The New York Times A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence The award winning author Melanie Mitchell a leading computer scientist now reveals AI s turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes grand hopes and emerging fears surrounding it In Artificial Intelligence Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today How intelligent really are the best AI programs How do they work What can they actually do and when do they fail How humanlike do we expect them to become and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us Along the way she introduces the dominant models of modern AI and machine learning describing cutting edge AI programs their human inventors and the historical lines of thought underpinning recent achievements She meets with fellow experts such as Douglas Hofstadter the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize winning author of the modern classic Godel Escher Bach who