What AI Can Do

<p>The philosopher Spinoza once asserted that no one knows what a body can do conceiving an intrinsic bodily power with unknown limits. Similarly we can ask ourselves about Artificial Intelligence (AI): To what extent is the development of intelligence limited by its technical and material substrate? In other words what can AI do? The answer is analogous to Spinoza’s: Nobody knows the limit of AI. </p><p>Critically considering this issue from philosophical interdisciplinary and engineering perspectives respectively this book assesses the scope and pertinence of AI technology and explores how it could bring about both a better and more unpredictable future. </p><p><em>What AI Can Do</em> highlights at both the theoretical and practical levels the cross-cutting relevance that AI is having on society appealing to students of engineering computer science and philosophy as well as all who hold a practical interest in the technology. </p>