Futures of artificial intelligence : perspectives from India and the U.S. / Robert M. Geraci.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789391050320 (ebook) :Subject(s): Artificial intelligence
| Transhumanism | Science -- Social aspects -- IndiaAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9788194831679DDC classification: 006.30954 LOC classification: Q335Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the United States; that vision is intimately connected to transhumanism, the idea that humanity can transcend its limits, even mortality, using technology. By describing the arrival and reconfiguration of transhumanist ideas in India, this book reveals how the nexus of religion and technology contributes to public life and our modern self-understanding while suggesting that the apocalyptic approach to AI should be tempered by other visions.
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This edition also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the United States; that vision is intimately connected to transhumanism, the idea that humanity can transcend its limits, even mortality, using technology. By describing the arrival and reconfiguration of transhumanist ideas in India, this book reveals how the nexus of religion and technology contributes to public life and our modern self-understanding while suggesting that the apocalyptic approach to AI should be tempered by other visions.
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