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Book Cybernetical Intelligence

Download or read book Cybernetical Intelligence written by Kelvin K. L. Wong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CYBERNETICAL INTELLIGENCE Highly comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date overview of artificial intelligence and cybernetics, with practical examples and supplementary learning resources Cybernetical Intelligence: Engineering Cybernetics with Machine Intelligence is a comprehensive guide to the field of cybernetics and neural networks, as well as the mathematical foundations of these technologies. The book provides a detailed explanation of various types of neural networks, including feedforward networks, recurrent neural networks, and convolutional neural networks as well as their applications to different real-world problems. This groundbreaking book presents a pioneering exploration of machine learning within the framework of cybernetics. It marks a significant milestone in the field’s history, as it is the first book to describe the development of machine learning from a cybernetics perspective. The introduction of the concept of “Cybernetical Intelligence” and the generation of new terminology within this context propel new lines of thought in the historical development of artificial intelligence. With its profound implications and contributions, this book holds immense importance and is poised to become a definitive resource for scholars and researchers in this field of study. Each chapter is specifically designed to introduce the theory with several examples. This comprehensive book includes exercise questions at the end of each chapter, providing readers with valuable opportunities to apply and strengthen their understanding of cybernetical intelligence. To further support the learning journey, solutions to these questions are readily accessible on the book’s companion site. Additionally, the companion site offers programming practice exercises and assignments, enabling readers to delve deeper into the practical aspects of the subject matter. Cybernetical Intelligence includes information on: The history and development of cybernetics and its influence on the development of neural networks Developments and innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning, such as deep reinforcement learning, generative adversarial networks, and transfer learning Mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence and cybernetics, including linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory Ethical implications of artificial intelligence and cybernetics as well as responsible and transparent development and deployment of AI systems Presenting a highly detailed and comprehensive overview of the field, with modern developments thoroughly discussed, Cybernetical Intelligence is an essential textbook that helps students make connections with real-life engineering problems by providing both theory and practice, along with a myriad of helpful learning aids.

Book Cybernetical Intelligence

Download or read book Cybernetical Intelligence written by Kelvin K. L. Wong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date overview of artificial intelligence and cybernetics, with practical examples and supplementary learning resources Cybernetical Intelligence: Engineering Cybernetics with Machine Intelligence is a comprehensive guide to the field of cybernetics and neural networks, , as well as the mathematical foundations of these technologies. The book provides a detailed explanation of various types of neural networks, including feedforward networks, recurrent neural networks, and convolutional neural networks, and their applications to different real-world problems. This groundbreaking book presents a pioneering exploration of machine learning within the framework of cybernetics. It marks a significant milestone in the field's history, as it is the first book to describe the development of machine learning from a cybernetics perspective. The introduction of the concept of "Cybernetical Intelligence" and the generation of new terminology within this context propel new lines of thought in the historical development of artificial intelligence. With its profound implications and contributions, this book holds immense importance and is poised to become a definitive resource for scholars and researchers in this field of study. Each chapter is specifically designed to introduce the theory with several examples. This comprehensive book includes exercise questions at the end of each chapter, providing readers with valuable opportunities to apply and strengthen their understanding of cybernetical intelligence. To further support the learning journey, solutions to these questions are readily accessible on our book's companion site. Additionally, the companion site offers programming practice exercises and assignments, enabling readers to delve deeper into the practical aspects of the subject matter. Cybernetical Intelligence includes information on: History and development of cybernetics and its influence on the development of neural networks Developments and innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning, such as deep reinforcement learning, generative adversarial networks, and transfer learning Mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence and cybernetics, including linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory Ethical implications of artificial intelligence and cybernetics, and responsible and transparent development and deployment of AI systems Presenting a highly detailed and comprehensive overview of the field, with modern developments thoroughly discussed, Cybernetical Intelligence is an essential textbook resource that helps students make connections with the real-life engineering problems by providing both theory and practice, along with a myriad of helpful learning aids.

Book Emotional Intelligence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annamaria Di Fabio
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 9533078383
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Emotional Intelligence written by Annamaria Di Fabio and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional intelligence is an emerging construct for applied research and possible interventions, both in scholastic, academic and educational contexts, organizational contexts, as well as at an individual level in terms of people's well-being and life satisfaction. From the presented contributions, it emerges how this volume is characterized by an interest to give an international overview rich of stimuli and perspectives for research and intervention, in relation to a promising variable of current interest, such as emotional intelligence. The goal is that this book further contributes to the affirmation of a particularly promising variable, such as emotional intelligence, which requires a greater interest and attention in both research and application field.

Book Cybernetic Revelation

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  • Author : J.D. Casten
  • Publisher : Post Egoism Media
  • Release : 2012-11-20
  • ISBN : 0985480203
  • Pages : 774 pages

Download or read book Cybernetic Revelation written by J.D. Casten and published by Post Egoism Media. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybernetic Revelation explores the dual philosophical histories of deconstruction and artificial intelligence, tracing the development of concepts like the "logos" and the notion of modeling the mind technologically from pre-history to contemporary thinkers like Slavoj Žižek, Steven Pinker, Bernard Stiegler and Daniel C. Dennett. The writing is clear and accessible throughout, yet the text probes deeply into major philosophers seen by JD Casten as "conceptual engineers." Philosophers covered include: Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Philo, Augustine, Shakespeare, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, Joyce, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Chomsky, Žižek, Pinker, Dennett, Hofstadter, Stiegler + more; with special chapters on: AI's history, Complexity, Deconstructing AI, Aesthetics, Consciousness + more...

Book Unconscious Intelligence in Cybernetic Psychology

Download or read book Unconscious Intelligence in Cybernetic Psychology written by Torben Hansen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The field of Cybernetics is emerging in a number of fields. - Offers insights into the applicability of Cybernetic Psychology across different areas and contexts. - Will be of cross disciplinary interest, including practitioners and scholars in Mental Health and Education.

Book Knowledge Based Intelligent System Advancements  Systemic and Cybernetic Approaches

Download or read book Knowledge Based Intelligent System Advancements Systemic and Cybernetic Approaches written by Jozefczyk, Jerzy and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge-Based Intelligent System Advancements: Systemic and Cybernetic Approaches presents selected new AI–based ideas and methods for analysis and decision making in intelligent information systems derived using systemic and cybernetic approaches. This book is useful for researchers, practitioners and students interested intelligent information retrieval and processing, machine learning and adaptation, knowledge discovery, applications of fuzzy based methods and neural networks.

Book Morphing Intelligence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Malabou
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-12
  • ISBN : 0231547234
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Morphing Intelligence written by Catherine Malabou and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine have become uncertain.

Book An Introduction to Cybernetic Synergy

Download or read book An Introduction to Cybernetic Synergy written by Mark Rowbotham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybernetics is about having a goal and taking action to achieve that goal. Knowing whether you have reached your goal (or at least are getting closer to it) requires “feedback”, a concept that was made rigorous by cybernetics. The subject of Cybernetic Synergy, although emanating from a socio-economic experiment of economic control by cybernetic means in Chile in the early 1970s, has never been approached as an applied subject in its own right. Indeed, the subject of applied cybernetics has never been addressed as a separate issue, although it has been shown that the overall subject of cybernetics applies to a wide range of disciplines, from biology to business via mathematics and engineering. Cybernetic synergy is the study of relationships and controls of and between corporate entities, on an external basis, and departments within corporate entities, on an internal basis. It concerns the decision-making process, and how decisions can be made based on feedback from any part of the organization being managed. It therefore concerns the issue of input of raw material or information, the output of the transformed information and materials, and the rectification of any issue based on negative feedback related to the productive process. It investigates not only the basic theory of the subject but also its applications in the commercial and business environment, as well as touching on government and administrative issues where shortcomings have emerged owing to a lack of synergy and communication. There are already several books available on the subject to cybernetics, but they are all concerned with mathematical approaches along with very heavy technical texts, most of which are completely alien to the layman or the simple practitioner. Furthermore, other than references to business or economic practice in some books, there has never been a book published purely about the subject of applied cybernetics relating to business practices. The book covers the subjects of management and economic cybernetics, and how the theory of cybernetic control can be used to manage business and government functions, whether small, medium or large. It looks at the history of cybernetics, and how some pioneering cybernetic concepts were used in Chile in the early 1970s to manage the Chilean economy. It uses these same principles, along with later cybernetic models, to show how such concepts can be applied to the present-day economy and business practices. It examines present-day business practices and shows how weaknesses in these systems can be addressed and eliminated by the application of cybernetic practices. The aims of the book are to provide an insight into the subject of management and business cybernetics, using the principle of cybernetic synergy, to resolve intra-corporate issues and create more efficient business practices based on simple command-and-control processes. Essentially, this book provides an in-depth insight into the use of cybernetics in business and administration environments, and would explain how cybernetics is a valuable tool in resolving corporate issues concerning efficiency and overall control. It would give a detailed explanation of the various practices and functions involved in business operations and practices.

Book The Cybernetic Brain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Pickering
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-04-15
  • ISBN : 0226667928
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book The Cybernetic Brain written by Andrew Pickering and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics’ impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.

Book Mechanisms of Intelligence

Download or read book Mechanisms of Intelligence written by William Ross Ashby and published by . This book was released on 1981-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How We Became Posthuman

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  • Author : N. Katherine Hayles
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-05-15
  • ISBN : 0226321398
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book How We Became Posthuman written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.

Book Emotional Intelligence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aruna Chakraborty
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-11-11
  • ISBN : 3540686061
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Emotional Intelligence written by Aruna Chakraborty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional Intelligence is a new discipline of knowledge, dealing with modeling, recognition and control of human emotions. The book Emotional Intelligence: A Cybernetic Approach, to the best of the authors’ knowledge is a first compreh- sive text of its kind that provides a clear introduction to the subject in a precise and insightful writing style. It begins with a philosophical introduction to E- tional Intelligence, and gradually explores the mathematical models for emotional dynamics to study the artificial control of emotion using music and videos, and also to determine the interactions between emotion and logic from the points of view of reasoning. The later part of the book covers the chaotic behavior of - existing emotions under certain conditions of emotional dynamics. Finally, the book attempts to cluster emotions using electroencephalogram signals, and d- onstrates the scope of application of emotional intelligence in several engineering systems, such as human-machine interfaces, psychotherapy, user assistance s- tems, and many others. The book includes ten chapters. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the s- ject from a philosophical and psychological standpoint. It outlines the fundamental causes of emotion arousal, and typical characteristics of the phenomenon of an emotive experience. The relation between emotion and rationality of thoughts is also introduced here. Principles of natural regulation of emotions are discussed in brief, and the biological basis of emotion arousal using an affective neu- scientific model is introduced next.

Book Systems Science and Cybernetics   Volume III

Download or read book Systems Science and Cybernetics Volume III written by Francisco Parra-Luna and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject “Systems sciences and cybernetics” is the outcome of the convergence of a number of trends in a larger current of thought devoted to the growing complexity of (primarily social) objects and arising in response to the need for globalized treatment of such objects. This has been magnified by the proliferation and publication of all manner of quantitative scientific data on such objects, advances in the theories on their inter-relations, the enormous computational capacity provided by IT hardware and software and the critical revisiting of subject-object interaction, not to mention the urgent need to control the efficiency of complex systems, where “efficiency” is understood to mean the ability to find a solution to many social problems, including those posed on a planetary scale. The result has been the forging of a new, academically consolidated scientific trend going by the name of Systems Theory and Cybernetics, with a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary focus and therefore apt for understanding realities still regarded to be inescapably chaotic. This subject entry is subdivided into four sections. The first, an introduction to systemic theories, addresses the historic development of the most commonly used systemic approaches, from new concepts such as the so-called “geometry of thinking” or the systemic treatment of “non-systemic identities” to the taxonomic, entropic, axiological and ethical problems deriving from a general “systemic-cybernetic” conceit. Hence, the focus in this section is on the historic and philosophical aspects of the subject. Moreover, it may be asserted today that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, problems, in particular problems deriving from human interaction but in general any problem regardless of its nature, must be posed from a systemic perspective, for otherwise the obstacles to their solution are insurmountable. Reaching such a perspective requires taking at least the following well-known steps: a) statement of the problem from the determinant variables or phenomena; b) adoption of theoretical models showing the interrelationships among such variables; c) use of the maximum amount of – wherever possible quantitative – information available on each; d) placement of the set of variables in an environment that inevitably pre-determines the problem. That epistemology would explain the substantial development of the systemic-cybernetic approach in recent decades. The articles in the second section deal in particular with the different methodological approaches developed when confronting real problems, from issues that affect humanity as a whole to minor but specific questions arising in human organizations. Certain sub-themes are discussed by the various authors – always from a didactic vantage –, including: problem discovery and diagnosis and development of the respective critical theory; the design of ad hoc strategies and methodologies; the implementation of both qualitative (soft system methodologies) and formal and quantitative (such as the “General System Problem Solver” or the “axiological-operational” perspective) approaches; cross-disciplinary integration; and suitable methods for broaching psychological, cultural and socio-political dynamisms. The third section is devoted to cybernetics in the present dual meaning of the term: on the one hand, control of the effectiveness of communication and actions, and on the other, the processes of self-production of knowledge through reflection and the relationship between the observing subject and the observed object when the latter is also observer and the former observed. Known as “second order cybernetics”, this provides an avenue for rethinking the validity of knowledge, such as for instance when viewed through what is known as “bipolar feedback”: processes through which interactions create novelty, complexity and diversity. Finally, the fourth section centres around artificial and computational intelligence, addressing sub-themes such as “neural networks”, the “simulated annealing” that ranges from statistical thermodynamics to combinatory problem-solving, such as in the explanation of the role of adaptive systems, or when discussing the relationship between biological and computational intelligence.

Book The Soft Machine

Download or read book The Soft Machine written by David Porush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context. David Porush shows how the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence that have sparked our present revolution in computer and information technology have also become the source for images and techniques in our most highly sophisticated literature, postmodern fiction by Barthelme, Barth, Pynchon, Beckett, Burroughs, Vonnegut and others. With considerable skill, Porush traces the growth of "the metaphor of the machine" as it evolves both technologically and in literature of the twentieth century. He describes the birth of cybernetics, gives one of the clearest accounts for a lay audience of its major concepts and shows the growth of philosophical resistance to the mechanical model for human intelligence and communication which cybernetics promotes, a model that had grown increasingly influential in the previous decade. The Soft Machine shows postmodern fiction synthesizing the inviting metaphors and concepts of cybernetics with the ideals of art, a synthesis that results in what Porush calls "cybernetic fiction" alive to the myths and images of a cybernetic age.

Book Machine Learning with Python

Download or read book Machine Learning with Python written by Tarkeshwar Barua and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how to use the programming language Python to develop machine learning and deep learning tasks.

Book Cybernetica

Download or read book Cybernetica written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I  Cyborg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Warwick
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780252072154
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book I Cyborg written by Kevin Warwick and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time in America, I, Cyborg is the story of Kevin Warwick, the cybernetic pioneer advancing science by upgrading his own body. Warwick, the world's leading expert in cybernetics, explains how he has deliberately crossed over a perilous threshold to take the first practical steps toward becoming a cyborg--part human, part machine--using himself as a guinea pig and undergoing surgery to receive technological implants connected to his central nervous system. Believing that machines with intelligence far beyond that of humans will eventually make the important decisions, Warwick investigates whether we can avoid obsolescence by using technology to improve on our comparatively limited capabilities. Warwick also discusses the implications for human relationships, and his wife's participation in the experiments. Beyond the autobiography of a scientist who became, in part, a machine, I, Cyborg is also a story of courage, devotion, and endeavor that split apart personal lives. The results of these amazing experiments have far-reaching implications not only for e-medicine, extra-sensory input, increased memory and knowledge, and even telepathy, but for the future of humanity as well.