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Author: Hendrik Kempt Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031136314 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 214
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This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way. Depending on our concept of friendship, we may be inclined to answer differently. Since social technology has made new forms of friendships possible between people across the globe, the author argues that the philosophical concept of friendship, forged thousands of years ago, should be re-examined. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that reflects the unique relationship we can build with machines as our synthetic friends.
Author: Hendrik Kempt Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031136314 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way. Depending on our concept of friendship, we may be inclined to answer differently. Since social technology has made new forms of friendships possible between people across the globe, the author argues that the philosophical concept of friendship, forged thousands of years ago, should be re-examined. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that reflects the unique relationship we can build with machines as our synthetic friends.
Author: Ekta Sharma Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) ISBN: 9386530910 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 56
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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘chemicals’? Friendly, hostile, smelly, radioactive, volatile—chemicals are all these and much more. And it’s not possible to do without them in our daily lives because they are present in just about everything. So the next best thing to do is to separate the good chemicals from the bad ones and the absolutely deadly ones! Peppered with curious facts and useful information, Friends and Foes explores the lesser-known, mystifying universe of chemicals and guides you towards a better judgement of what chemicals to avoid and what to limit. It is your guide to the most pressing need of the hour—a healthier and environment-friendly life. Contents Introduction Making Sense of Chemicals Natural and Synthetic Chemicals Myths About Chemicals Chemicals We Eat Your Healthy Eating Guide Medicines That Heal Pesticide: A Necessary Evil Chemicals We Use at Home Chemicals in the Environment Industrial Mishaps Steer Clear of Toxic Chemicals Glossary
Author: Susanne Reichl Publisher: V&R unipress ISBN: 3737016399 Category : Languages : en Pages : 329
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This volume showcases interdisciplinary research on young people’s media lifeworlds originating from the research platform #YouthMediaLife at the University of Vienna and its first international conference in 2021. From big questions about our research practices during pandemic times to smaller data sets focusing on specific platforms and historical or geographical particularities, the volume constitutes a diverse collection with a broad thematic heading and, as such, demonstrates the range and scope of this research field. It offers to its readers the opportunity to learn about broader approaches to interdisciplinary research and provides case studies that are very specific in their focus and illustrate irritations and concerns with contemporary media practices.
Author: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030939448 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 345
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings and revised selected papers from the 16th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2021, and the 5th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, CBT 2021, which were held online on October 8, 2021, in conjunction with ESORICS 2021. The workshops were initially planned to take place in Darmstadt, Germany, and changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The DPM 2021 workshop received 25 submissions and accepted 7 full and 3 short papers for publication. These papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Risks and privacy preservation; policies and regulation; privacy and learning. For CBT 2021 6 full papers and 6 short papers were accepted out of 31 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Mining, consensus and market manipulation; smart contracts and anonymity.
Author: Ariel M. Greenberg Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642372104 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 550
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, SBP 2013, held in Washington, DC, USA in April 2013. The total of 57 contributions, which consists of papers and posters, included in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. This conference is strongly committed to multidisciplinarity, consistent with recent trends in computational social science and related fields. The topics covered are: behavioral science, health sciences, military science and information science. There are also many papers that provide methodological innovation as well as new domain-specific findings.
Author: C Wess Daniels Publisher: James Clarke & Company ISBN: 0227904850 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 239
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'A Convergent Model of Renewal' addresses a perceived crisis for faith traditions. How do we continue to value tradition while allowing for innovative and contextual expressions of faith to emerge? How do we foster deeper participation and decentralisation of power rather than entrenched institutionalism? Drawing on insights from contemporary philosophy, contextual theology, and participatory culture, C. Wess Daniels calls for a revitalisation of faith traditions. Here he proposes a model that holds together both tradition and innovation in ways that foster participatory change. This convergent model of renewal is then applied to two case studies based in the Quaker tradition: one from the early part of the tradition and the second from aninnovative community today. The model, however, is capable of being implemented and adapted by communities with various faith backgrounds.
Author: James Vlahos Publisher: Harper ISBN: 1328799301 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 341
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The Next Big Thing in tech--the impending revolution in voice recognition--and how it will upend Silicon Valley and change how we all live our lives
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 460
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Author: Ron Fulbright Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100020121X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 198
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We create technology enabling us to do things never before possible and it ultimately changes the way we live, work, play, and interact with each other. Throughout human history, the democratization of technology making a technology available to the masses, has brought about sweeping cultural, social, political, and societal changes. In the last half-century, the democratization of computers, information, the Internet, and social media have revolutionized and transformed our lives. We now stand at the beginning of a new era sure to bring about waves of new revolutions, the cognitive systems era. Until now, humans have done all of the thinking. However, our lives are about to be infused with artificial entities capable of performing high-level cognitive processing previously possible only in the human mind. Systems capable of this kind of "synthetic cognition" will achieve and surpass the level of human experts in almost every field of endeavor. Far from replacing humans, these cognitive systems will be our collaborators, teachers, confidants, colleagues, and companions. The future will belong to those who can better partner with these cognitive systems. Made available to the average person via the Internet, handheld devices, and through ordinary objects all around us, expertise will become democratized. Everything will change when anyone has access to expertise in any field and new things will be possible. The democratization of expertise is the foundation on which our society’s revolutions will be built over the next half-century. This book discusses societal and cultural revolutions throughout history brought about by the adoption of new technology and gives brief histories of human cognitive augmentation and artificial intelligence. In the coming cognitive systems era, humans, by collaboratively partnering with cognitive systems, will together achieve expert-level performance—synthetic expertise—with humans performing some of the cognitive processing and cognitive systems performing some. As the capabilities of cognitive systems improve over time, the balance of thinking will shift from being mostly human to mostly artificial. This book introduces the Levels of Cognitive Augmentation to describe this shift. Drawing from previous research in cognitive systems and intelligent agent theory, the knowledge stores required for expertise are identified in a Knowledge Level description of expertise. This book introduces a new abstract level, called the Expertise Level to describe the skills needed for expertise. Combining the knowledge-level and expertise-level descriptions, this book introduces the Model of Expertise. This book demonstrates use of the Model of Expertise by presenting several synthetic expert architectures: a synthetic teacher (Synthia), a synthetic friend/therapist (Sy), a synthetic elderly companion (Lois), a synthetic research companion (Synclair), and an automated scientific hypothesis explorer (Ashe). This book is intended for anyone interested in the fields of cognitive systems, cognitive computing, cognitive augmentation, or artificial intelligence or the impact of technologies from these fields on society. Anyone doing research and development in the area of cognitive systems or artificial intelligence will find this book particularly useful.
Author: Hendrik Kempt
Author: Hendrik Kempt
Author: Ekta Sharma
Author: Susanne Reichl
Author: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
Author: Ariel M. Greenberg
Author: Guanglin Zhang
Author: C Wess Daniels
Author: James Vlahos
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Author: Ron Fulbright