Will your next doctor be a human being-or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do what
should you know before making it?This book introduces the reader to the pitfalls and promises
of artificial intelligence (AI) in its modern incarnation and the growing trend of systems to
reach off the Web into the real world. The convergence of AI social networking and modern
computing is creating an historic inflection point in the partnership between human beings and
machines with potentially profound impacts on the future not only of computing but of our world
and species.AI experts and researchers James Hendler-co-originator of the Semantic Web (Web
3.0)-and Alice Mulvehill-developer of AI-based operational systems for DARPA the Air Force
and NASA-explore the social implications of AI systems in the context of a close examination of
the technologies that make them possible. The authors critically evaluate the utopian claims
and dystopian counterclaims of AI prognosticators. Social Machines: The Coming Collision of
Artificial Intelligence Social Networking and Humanity is your richly illustrated field guide
to the future of your machine-mediated relationships with other human beings and with
increasingly intelligent machines. What Readers Will Learn What the concept of a social machine
is and how the activities of non-programmers are contributing to machine intelligence How
modern artificial intelligence technologies such as Watson are evolving and how they process
knowledge from both carefully produced information (such as Wikipedia and journal articles) and
from big data collections The fundamentals of neuromorphic computing knowledge graph search
and linked data as well as the basic technology concepts that underlie networking applications
such as Facebook and Twitter How the change in attitudes towards cooperative work on the Web
especially in the younger demographic is critical to the future of Web applications Who This
Book Is ForGeneral readers and technically engaged developers entrepreneurs and technologists
interested in the threats and promises of the accelerating convergence of artificial
intelligence with social networks and mobile web technologies.
