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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404104003321

Autore

Grant Thomas D

Titolo

On the path to AI : Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age / / by Thomas D. Grant, Damon J. Wischik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : Springer Nature, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-43582-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 147 p. 4 illus.)

Disciplina

303.483

303.4834

Soggetti

Technology—Sociological aspects

Human geography

Mass media

Law

Artificial intelligence

Science and Technology Studies

Human Geography

IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: Starting with logic -- CHAPTER 1: Two Revolutions -- CHAPTER 2: Getting past logic -- CHAPTER 3: Experience and data as input -- CHAPTER 4: Finding patterns as the path from input to output -- CHAPTER 5: Output as prophecy -- CHAPTER 6: Explanations of machine learning -- CHAPTER 7: Juries and other reliable predictors -- CHAPTER 8: Poisonous datasets, poisonous trees -- CHAPTER 9: From Holmes to AlphaGo -- CHAPTER 10:Conclusion -- EPILOGUE: Lessons in two directions.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine



learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of the 19th century. Holmes reconceived law as prophecy based on experience, prefiguring the buzzwords of the machine learning age—prediction based on datasets. On the path to AI introduces readers to the key concepts of machine learning, discusses the potential applications and limitations of predictions generated by machines using data, and informs current debates amongst scholars, lawyers and policy makers on how it should be used and regulated wisely. Technologists will also find useful lessons learned from the last 120 years of legal grappling with accountability, explainability, and biased data. .