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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971100403321

Autore

Adam Alison

Titolo

Artificial knowing : gender and the thinking machine / / Alison Adam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-79355-3

0-203-00505-8

1-134-79356-1

1-280-50648-2

9786610506484

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

v, 210 p

Disciplina

306.4/6

Soggetti

Women - Effect of technological innovations on

Artificial intelligence - Social aspects

Expert systems (Computer science)

Knowledge representation (Information theory)

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 FEMINIST RESOURCES -- chapter 2 AI IN CONTEXT -- chapter 3 THE KNOWING SUBJECT IN AI -- chapter 4 KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE AND RATIONALITY IN AI -- chapter 5 EMBODIMENT AND SITUATEDNESS -- chapter 6 FEMINIST AI PROJECTS AND CYBERFUTURES.

Sommario/riassunto

Alison Adam challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence of the world in her book which re-enforces criticisms of the AI project. Adam also shows how gender bias is programmed into AI-based systems using theories based on feminism.