Machine Agency
暫譯: 機器代理
Mattingly, James, Cibralic, Beba
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2025-02-04
- 售價: $1,970
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,872
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 184
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262549980
- ISBN-13: 9780262549981
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商品描述
An engaging exploration of agency that provides students with the critical tools needed to understand and participate in debates about future machines.
The great promise of artificial intelligence's evolution lives alongside an equally great anxiety. As we develop increasingly autonomous machines that do things in the world, questions about agency--distinguishing machines that can act from those that cannot--are among the thorniest we face. A concise and probing exploration of agency, this accessible textbook provides the critical, technical, and conceptual tools needed to make sense of rapid changes in what machines can do and their role in our lives. James Mattingly and Beba Cibralic begin with an examination of foundational issues: What is agency? How does it differ from mindedness, consciousness, and intelligence? Can we attribute agency to certain machines, and if so, how and why? They then examine the social and ethical implications of building ever more complex machines, including those concerning moral status and responsibility. Drawing together ideas from philosophy and computer science as well as from information theory, literature, and the history of science, Machine Agency invites students to participate thoughtfully in critical debates about future machines. - Provides a roadmap for interrogating the concept of machine agency suitable for philosophy majors and non-majors alike
- Investigates the connections between developments in AI and pressing issues in analytic philosophy
- Explores the social and ethical impacts of computational systems with agency
Features robust end-of-chapter exercises
The great promise of artificial intelligence's evolution lives alongside an equally great anxiety. As we develop increasingly autonomous machines that do things in the world, questions about agency--distinguishing machines that can act from those that cannot--are among the thorniest we face. A concise and probing exploration of agency, this accessible textbook provides the critical, technical, and conceptual tools needed to make sense of rapid changes in what machines can do and their role in our lives. James Mattingly and Beba Cibralic begin with an examination of foundational issues: What is agency? How does it differ from mindedness, consciousness, and intelligence? Can we attribute agency to certain machines, and if so, how and why? They then examine the social and ethical implications of building ever more complex machines, including those concerning moral status and responsibility. Drawing together ideas from philosophy and computer science as well as from information theory, literature, and the history of science, Machine Agency invites students to participate thoughtfully in critical debates about future machines. - Provides a roadmap for interrogating the concept of machine agency suitable for philosophy majors and non-majors alike
- Investigates the connections between developments in AI and pressing issues in analytic philosophy
- Explores the social and ethical impacts of computational systems with agency
Features robust end-of-chapter exercises
商品描述(中文翻譯)
對於代理的引人入勝的探索，為學生提供理解和參與未來機器辯論所需的關鍵工具。
人工智慧演變的巨大承諾與同樣巨大的焦慮並存。隨著我們開發出越來越自主的機器，這些機器在世界中執行各種任務，關於代理的問題——區分能夠行動的機器與無法行動的機器——是我們面臨的最棘手問題之一。這本簡明而深入的代理探索教材，提供了理解機器能做什麼及其在我們生活中角色的快速變化所需的關鍵、技術和概念工具。
James Mattingly 和 Beba Cibralic 首先檢視基礎問題：什麼是代理？它與心智、意識和智慧有何不同？我們能否將代理歸因於某些機器？如果可以，如何以及為什麼？接著，他們探討了建造越來越複雜的機器的社會和倫理影響，包括道德地位和責任的問題。Machine Agency 結合了哲學、計算機科學、信息理論、文學和科學史的觀點，邀請學生在關於未來機器的關鍵辯論中進行深思熟慮的參與。
- 提供一個適合哲學專業及非專業學生的機器代理概念探討路線圖
- 探討人工智慧的發展與分析哲學中的緊迫問題之間的聯繫
- 探索具有代理的計算系統的社會和倫理影響
- 具備豐富的章末練習題
作者簡介
James Mattingly is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, author of Information and Experimental Knowledge, and editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Beba Cibralic is an Associate Fellow at Cambridge University's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a researcher on AI at RAND Corporation.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
詹姆斯·馬丁利是喬治城大學的哲學教授，著作包括資訊與實驗知識，並編輯SAGE科學、技術、工程與數學理論百科全書。貝巴·西布拉利克是劍橋大學Leverhulme未來智能中心的副研究員，並在RAND公司從事人工智慧研究。
