Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines
Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of
In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create are limited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machines abilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the difference between human action and machine intelligence, the core of which is a witty and learned explanation of knowledge itself, of what communities know and the ways in which they know it.
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Table of Contents
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I: What Computers Can Do
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II: Expert Systems and the Articulation of Knowledge
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III: A Skill Encoded–A Skill Practiced
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IV: Testing the Limits of Articulation
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V: Final Remarks
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