Digitalization is inexorably conquering our lives - also with artificial
intelligence (AI) methods. Search engine operators, social network
operators and shipping platform operators know more and more about us,
about our buying and living habits. User data has become a valuable
commodity. We live and work with computer systems that behave
intelligently or are even intelligent. Questions like "Can machines be
intelligent?" or "Can they have emotions or a consciousness?" keep
popping up.
To enable readers to form their own opinion on these questions, the
authors clearly explain individual techniques or methods of AI and
relate them to approaches from philosophy, art and neurobiology. Topics
such as logical reasoning, knowledge and memory play just as important a
role as machine learning and artificial neural networks. In the
foreground is the question of what constitutes memory and thinking, what
role our emotions play when we as humans move through life, through the
world. A book that offers unusual perspectives on artificial
intelligence.