1INTRODUCTIONAI AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE
Few ideas have captured the popular imagination of our era as much as that of artificial intelligence – a vision of intelligent machines able to act and think as humans do. The promises and perils of potentially intelligent machines are constantly being imagined, presented, debated and reframed across all media and information channels. Some of these visions are purely fantastical: we are very far from needing to be concerned that robot superhumans may be about to take over the world or to put all humans out of work in our lifetimes. However, artificial intelligence technologies – in the real-world sense of what this means in practice, about which I will elaborate ...
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