Bøger af Yorick Wilks

Getting to the heart of the Artificial Intelligence debate.

AN INTRIGUING AND BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF YORICK WILKS'' INSIDERS GUIDE TO AIThe benefits and potential nightmares of artificial intelligence have long inspired science-fiction writers, but in a world where most of us carry a portable device that knows infinitely more than we do, these are increasingly real concerns.Artificial Intelligence is the essential companion to this unsettling science. It surveys the history, philosophies, and current state of AI, and asks key questions such as how should robots think, and can machines really learn? With subjects ranging from the World Wide Web to artificial companions, the book considers such ethical issues as automated warfare, internet surveillance, and fake news, speculating on just how far robots will infiltrate our future.This illustrated edition combines compelling photographs with ''circuit-board'' infographics to lift the curtain on the hidden world of AI.

A history of machine translation (MT) from the point of view of a major writer and innovator in the field is the subject of this book. It details the deep differences between rival groups on how best to do MT, and presents a global perspective covering historical and contemporary systems in Europe, the US and Japan.

Argues that Natural Language Processing does, and will continue to, underlie the Semantic Web, including its initial construction from unstructured sources like the World Wide Web, in several different ways, and whether its advocates realise this or not.