The Electronic Mirror

Artificial Intelligence is being talked about all over the place but rarely does anyone ever mention that these smart bits of machinery were never coming onto the scene simply to take away the dreary or dangerous jobs. From the start they were used to pose hypotheses as to how the human mind works, an electronic mirror presenting a distorted picture in which a human being can learn more about what intelligence is and what it isn’t.

In its earliest stages those working in AI research believed that it was necessary simply to give an accurate description of how humans think in order to be able to build smart machines. Seventy years later disillusionment has set in. The greatest challenges are not the chess games or the creation of geometric figures, more the hard to grasp human concepts such as flexibility, creativity, understanding and judging about a situation before responding appropriately.

*‘Manuela Lenzen debunks common myths and explains everything we need to know about AI right now.’ Dana Heide, Handelsblatt

*Why so-called ‘intelligent algorithms’ still have problems

*What constitutes natural intelligence?

*Since the publication of her long-seller ‘Künstliche Intelligenz’, the author has been a sought-after expert on this subject