Humans through the ages have often tinkered with imaginations beyond their immediate realities. The author of this book revealed how the illusions of early pretentious beliefs have eventually morphed into real life existential threats in contemporary times. Furthermore, it explains how gradual but continuous improvements in artificial intelligence could have far-reaching implications on humans going forward.
The Teenage Guide to Artificial Intelligence is a sort of handbook that prepares the mind about with is coming. It takes the reader through the course of history, to the early years of crude artificial intelligence. Then brings events up-to-speed with what we are currently experiencing and ultimately projects what will happen in the near future.
Futuristic sci-fi movies may or may not have exaggerated about how robots will eventually overwhelm humans. However, there is ample evidence that the world is fast changing from the natural to the artificial. Are humans really prepared to face what is about to come in the not-so-distant future? Will programmed robots eventually rival or even control the human population?
This book is a perfect guide for teenagers and indeed anyone that desires to gain insight into the future as regards to artificial intelligence.
BIO: I am currently Professor in the Department of Information & Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago. I have a BA in Statistics and an MBA in Accounting from Indiana University and received my PhD in Computers and Information Systems from the University of Michigan. I am the author of numerous academic papers and seven scholarly books: Audit Analytics (Springer 2nd ed 2024), Structural Equation Modeling ( Springer 2nd ed. 2019); Global Electronic Commerce (MIT Press 2000); Global Innovation Management (Springer 2nd ed 2017); Red Wired: China’s Internet Revolution (Marshall Cavendish, 2010); Financial Dynamics (Wiley 2003); and Valuing Technology (Wiley 2002) . I am the Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Commerce Research (Springer, since 2013) and have served on editorial boards of several other information technology journals including Management Science, ISR, ECRA, IJEC. I have served on the faculties at the University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Harbin Institute of Technology and other academic institutions. In 2012 I received High-Level Foreign Expert status in China under the 1000-Talents Plan and am currently Overseas Chair Professor at Beihang University.
