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Artificial Intelligence

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Roboethics

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer and system science concerned with intelligent machines and systems which are created by embedding intelligence to computers. Actually, no unique, or globally accepted, definition of AI exists, and the AI concept has brought a wide repertory of discussions, arguments and disagreements. This Chapter provides background material on AI that will enable the reader to appreciate the need for intelligent machines and robots ethics. Specifically, the chapter discusses the difference between human and artificial intelligence, outlines the Turing test that a machine has to pass in order to be characterized as intelligent, and provides a quick tour to applied AI.

Instead of worrying about whether a particular machine

can be intelligent, it is far more important to make a piece

of software that is intelligent.

Oliver Selfridge

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware

of what it is doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.

Marvin Miasky

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). Artificial Intelligence. In: Roboethics. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21714-7_3

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