Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines - Couverture souple

Collins, Harry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262531151 ISBN 13 : 9780262531153

Editeur : MIT Press, 1992

Synopsis

In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create are limited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machines abilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the difference between human action and machine intelligence, the core of which is a witty and learned explanation of knowledge itself, of what communities know and the ways in which they know it.

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À propos de l?auteur

Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of Gravity's Shadow; Gravity's Ghost; Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog; Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves (MIT Press); and many other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262531151
• ISBN 13: 9780262531153
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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