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Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How will AI affect the law?
AI will significantly impact a wide variety of human activities and have a dramatic influence on many fields, professions, and markets. Any attempt to ...
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Defining Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is artificial intelligence?
That’s an easy question to ask and a hard one to answer—for two reasons. First, there’s little agreement about what intelligence is. Second, ...
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Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the main areas of research and development in AI?
Work in artificial intelligence is generally divided into a number of subfields that address common, though difficult, ...
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Labor
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Are robots going to take away our jobs?
While it’s tempting to think of AI systems in general, and robots in particular, as mechanical laborers competing for employment, this isn’t ...
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Social Equity
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who’s going to benefit from this technological revolution?
Unfortunately, AI is accelerating the substitution of capital for labor, and so those with capital will benefit at the ...
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The Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Where did the term artificial intelligence come from?
The first use of “artificial intelligence” can be attributed to a specific individual—John McCarthy, in 1956 an assistant ...
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Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the philosophy of AI?
You might wonder why a field like AI seems to attract so much controversy. After all, other engineering disciplines—such as civil, mechanical, or ...
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Possible Future Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Kaplan
in Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is progress in AI accelerating?
Not all subfields of AI proceed at the same pace, in part because they build on progress in other fields. For example, improvements in the physical ...
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