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Humans need not apply : a guide to wealth and work in the age of artificial intelligence / Jerry Kaplan.

By: Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]Description: xii, 241 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300213553
  • 0300213557
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.301/12 23
LOC classification:
  • CB161 .K355 2015
  • CB161 .K355 2015
Contents:
Introduction: Welcome to the future -- Teaching computers to fish -- Teaching robots to heel -- Robotic pickpockets -- The gods are angry -- Officer, arrest that robot -- America, land of the free shipping -- America, home of the brave pharaohs -- Take this job and automate it -- The fix is in -- Outroduction : welcome to your children's future.
Summary: Researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. It has the potential to usher in a new age of affluence and leisure-- but as Kaplan warns, the transition may be protracted and brutal unless we address the two great scourges of the modern developed world: volatile labor markets and income inequality. He proposes innovative, free-market adjustments to our economic system and social policies to avoid an extended period of social turmoil.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks CB161 .K355 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001383982

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. It has the potential to usher in a new age of affluence and leisure-- but as Kaplan warns, the transition may be protracted and brutal unless we address the two great scourges of the modern developed world: volatile labor markets and income inequality. He proposes innovative, free-market adjustments to our economic system and social policies to avoid an extended period of social turmoil.

Introduction: Welcome to the future -- Teaching computers to fish -- Teaching robots to heel -- Robotic pickpockets -- The gods are angry -- Officer, arrest that robot -- America, land of the free shipping -- America, home of the brave pharaohs -- Take this job and automate it -- The fix is in -- Outroduction : welcome to your children's future.

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