1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789364703321

Titolo

Countering the problem of falsified and substandard drugs / / Committee on Understanding the Global Public Health Implications of Substandard, Falsified, and Counterfeit Medical Products, Board on Global Health ; Gillian J. Buckley and Lawrence O. Gostin, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-26940-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

364.1668

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical industry - Quality control

Fraud - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Contents""; ""Boxes, Figures, and Tables""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Effects of Falsified and Substandard Drugs""; ""3 The Magnitude of the Problem""; ""4 Causes of Falsified and Substandard Drugs""; ""5 Weaknesses in the Drug Distribution Chain""; ""6 Detection Technology""; ""7 An International Code of Practice for Falsified and Substandard Medicines""; ""Appendix A: Glossary""; ""Appendix B: Committee Biographies""; ""Appendix C: Meeting Agendas""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798453103321

Autore

Boden Margaret A.

Titolo

AI : its nature and future / / Margaret A. Boden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-108348-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence - Social aspects

artificial intelligence

COMPUTERS - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; ITS NATURE AND FUTURE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; CONTENTS ; LIST OF FIGURES; Chapter 1:  What is Artificial Intelligence? ; Virtual Machines ; The Major Types of AI ; AI Foreseen ; How AI Began ; Cybernetics ; How AI Divided ; Chapter 2:  General Intelligence as the Holy Grail ; Supercomputers aren't Enough ; Heuristic Search ; Planning ; Mathematical Simplification ; Knowledge Representation ; Rule-Based Programs ; Frames, Word-Vectors, Scripts, Semantic Nets ; Logic and the Semantic Web ; Computer Vision ; The Frame Problem ; Agents and Distributed Cognition

Machine Learning Generalist Systems ; The Dream Revitalized ; Missing Dimensions ; Chapter 3:  Language, Creativity, Emotion ; Language ; Creativity ; AI and Emotion ; Chapter 4:  Artificial Neural Networks ; The Wider Implications of ANNs ; Parallel Distributed Processing ; Learning in Neural Networks ; Backprop and Brains-And Deep Learning ; Network Scandal ; Connections aren't Everything ; Hybrid Systems ; Chapter 5:  Robots and Artificial Life ; Situated Robots and Interesting Insects ; Evolutionary AI ; Self-Organization ; Chapter 6:  But is it Intelligence, Really? ; The Turing Test

The Many Problems of Consciousness Machine Consciousness ; AI and Phenomenal Consciousness ; Virtual Machines and the Mind-Body



Problem ; Meaning and Understanding ; Is Neuroprotein Essential? ; Not Just Brain, but Body too ; Moral Community ; Morality, Freedom, and Self ; Mind and Life ; The Great Philosophical Divide ; Chapter 7:  The Singularity ; Prophets of the Singularity ; Competing Predictions ; Skepticism Defended ; Whole-Brain Emulation ; What We Should be Worrying about ; What's being Done about it ; REFERENCES ; ENDNOTES; Chapter 1; Chapter 2 ; Chapter 3 ; Chapter 4 ; Chapter 5

Chapter 6 Chapter 7 ;  INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Artificial Intelligence surrounds us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. Margaret Boden considers the realistic and unrealistic expectations we have placed on AI, analyses its progress, and considers the value of its byproducts.