ISBN:
9781501357060
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Series Statement:
New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media-Technological innovations
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Mass media and technology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Cybermedia's Backstory: Lead Editor Carol Vernallis -- Bibliography -- Part One AI and Robotics -- 1 Could the AI of Our Dreams Ever Become Reality? -- Mutual Simultaneous Constraint Satisfaction -- Metacognition, Explanation, and Discourse -- The Role of Culturally Invented Modes and Tools for Thinking -- Goal-Directed Thinking -- Final Thoughts -- Bibliography -- 2 Director Alex Garland Converses with Cybermedia's Scientists and Media Scholars Alex Garland, Jay McClelland, Paul Skokowski, Simon Levy, Jeff Zacks, Carol Vernallis, Selmin Kara, andJonathan Leal. -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- 3 (S)Ex Machina and the Cartesian Theater of the Absurd -- Descartes' Internal Theater -- Turing Te{x|s}t -- Nature, Nurture, and Deep Dreams -- Uploading and the Acquisition of Knowledge -- Rule-following and Private Language -- She's Not One of Us -- Closing Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- 4 Epiphany, Infinity and Transcendent AI -- Bibliography -- Part Two Big Data, Sentience, and the Universe -- 5 A MASSIVE Swirl of Pixels Radiohead's "Go to Sleep" -- Massive -- Sonic Agencies -- Life, Movement, and Form -- Animacy and Animation -- Automation Trouble -- Imitation of Life -- Bibliography -- 6 The Rise of the Machine Body-Knowing, Neural Nets, and Emergent Freedom -- 1. Defending a Line: Dismal Prospects for Human Creativity and Freedom? -- 2. Can a Machine-Or Artificial Intelligence-Perform Achievements of Tacit Knowing? -- 3. Does a Machine's Ability to Perform Achievements of Tacit Knowing Mean that that Knowledge is Now Fully Explicable? -- 4. Dwelling in the System: Evolution, Animals and Intelligent Machines -- Bibliography.
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