The Law of Artificially Intelligent Brains

Barfield, Woodrow

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Woodrow Barfield²

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Abstract

Benefiting from exponentially improving technologies , in numerous examples what was once considered a task distinctly requiring human intelligence is now being done much faster and more efficiently by artificially intelligent machines .

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Barfield, W. (2015). The Law of Artificially Intelligent Brains. In: Cyber-Humans. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25050-2_3

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