The Age of Algorithms

Abiteboul, Serge, Dowek, Gilles, Nelson, K-Rae

  • 出版商: Cambridge
  • 出版日期: 2020-04-16
  • 定價: $700
  • 售價: 9.0$630
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 140
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1108745423
  • ISBN-13: 9781108745420
  • 相關分類: Algorithms-data-structures
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商品描述

Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society. They upset the concepts of work, property, government, private life, even humanity. Going easily from one extreme to the other, we rejoice that they make life easier for us, but fear that they will enslave us. To get beyond this vision of good vs evil, this book takes a new look at our time, the age of algorithms. Creations of the human spirit, algorithms are what we made them. And they will be what we want them to be: it's up to us to choose the world we want to live in.

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  • The authors, both eminent computer scientists, avoid simplistic analysis, avoiding both technophile enthusiasm and apocalyptic technophobia
  • Examines issues raised by algorithms, in particular work, property, government and privacy, from technical, philosophical, and societal perspectives
    • Explains complex and technical issues in terms everyone can understand

商品描述(中文翻譯)

演算法可能是人類歷史以來最複雜的工具。自從人類開始有這些工具以來,它們已經改變了科學、工業和社會。它們顛覆了工作、財產、政府、私人生活,甚至人性的概念。我們喜悅地看到它們讓生活變得更輕鬆,但也擔心它們會奴役我們。為了超越這種對好與壞的觀點,這本書重新審視了我們所處的時代,即演算法時代。演算法是人類精神的創造物,它們是我們創造的。它們將成為我們想要的樣子:我們可以選擇我們想要生活在其中的世界。

這本書的作者是兩位傑出的計算機科學家,他們避免了簡單化的分析,既不是技術狂熱者,也不是末日論者。他們從技術、哲學和社會的角度探討了演算法引發的問題,特別是工作、財產、政府和隱私。並且以每個人都能理解的方式解釋了複雜的技術問題。

目錄大綱

1. Algorithms intrigue, algorithms disturb
2. What is an algorithm?
3. Algorithms, computers, and programs
4. What algorithms do
5. What algorithms don't do
6. Computational thinking
7. The end of employment
8. The end of work
9. The end of property
10. Governing in the age of algorithms
11. An algorithm in the community
12. The responsibility of algorithms
13. Personal data and privacy
14. Fairness, transparency, and diversity
15. Computers and ecology
16. Computer science education
17. The augmented human
18. Can an algorithm be intelligent?
19. Can an algorithm have feelings? 20. Time to choose.

目錄大綱(中文翻譯)

1. 算法引人入勝,算法令人不安
2. 什麼是算法?
3. 算法、電腦和程式
4. 算法的功能
5. 算法不能做的事情
6. 計算思維
7. 就業的終結
8. 工作的終結
9. 財產的終結
10. 在算法時代的治理
11. 社區中的算法
12. 算法的責任
13. 個人數據和隱私
14. 公平、透明和多樣性
15. 電腦與生態
16. 電腦科學教育
17. 增強人類
18. 算法能夠智能嗎?
19. 算法能夠有感情嗎?
20. 是時候做出選擇了。