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Limits of AI - theoretical, practical, ethical

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Authors:
  1. Klaus Mainzer

    1. TUM Senior Excellence Faculty, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

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  2. Reinhard Kahle

    1. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  • Generally understandable introduction to artificial intelligence
  • Provides an outlook on future technologies
  • Explains clearly the limits of AI

Part of the book series: Technik im Fokus (TECHNIK)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Concept of Artificial Intelligence

    • Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle
    Pages 1-7

  3. Practical Limits

    • Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle
    Pages 9-52

  4. Theoretical Limits

    • Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle
    Pages 53-78

  5. Conceptual Limitations

    • Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle
    Pages 79-111

  6. Prospects for Hybrid AI

    • Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle
    Pages 113-150

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 151-158
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About this book

Artificial intelligence is a key technology with great expectations in science, industry, and everyday life. This book discusses both the perspectives and the limitations of this technology. This concerns the practical, theoretical, and conceptual challenges that AI has to face. In an early phase of symbolic AI, AI focused on formal programs (e.g., expert systems), in which rule-based knowledge was processed with the help of symbolic logic. Today, AI is dominated by statistics-based machine learning methods and Big Data. While this sub-symbolic AI is extremely successful (e.g., chatbots like ChatGPT), it is often not transparent. The book argues for explainable and reliable AI, in which the logical and mathematical foundations of AI-algorithms become understandable and verifiable.




Authors and Affiliations

  • TUM Senior Excellence Faculty, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Klaus Mainzer

  • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Reinhard Kahle

About the authors

About the Authors
Klaus Mainzer teaches as Emeritus of Excellence at the Technical University of Munich and as Senior Professor at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center at the University of Tübingen. He is President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His research focuses on complexity and computability theory, foundations of artificial intelligence, philosophy of science and technology, future issues of the technical-scientific world.

Reinhard Kahle is Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Endowed Professor of Theory and History of Science at the University of Tübingen. His research interests include proof theory and the history and philosophy of modern mathematical logic, foundations of computer science and the philosophical reflection of science as currently propagated in artificial intelligence.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Limits of AI - theoretical, practical, ethical

  • Authors: Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle

  • Series Title: Technik im Fokus

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68290-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68289-0Published: 01 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-68290-6Published: 31 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2194-0770

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-0789

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Mathematical and Computational Engineering

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