Futures of artificial intelligence: perspectives from India and the U.S.

Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the Unite...

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Main Author: Geraci, Robert M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2021
Edition:First edition
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the United States; that vision is intimately connected to transhumanism, the idea that humanity can transcend its limits, even mortality, using technology. By describing the arrival and reconfiguration of transhumanist ideas in India, this book reveals how the nexus of religion and technology contributes to public life and our modern self-understanding while suggesting that the apocalyptic approach to AI should be tempered by other visions
Item Description:This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 213 Seiten)
ISBN:9789391050320
DOI:10.1093/oso/9788194831679.001.0001

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