The amazing journey of reason : from DNA to artificial intelligence /: from DNA to artificial intelligence. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mario Alemi.
• Authors: Alemi, Mario
• Contents: Acknowledgments Skipping Math Chapter 1. Life, Energy and Information What is Life? The Decay Towards Equilibrium Energy Extraction Requires Information Defining Information Information Storage Requires Energy Storing Information Chapter 2. From the Big Bang to living cells Intelligent Systems Ex-nihilo Energy and Information The Emergence of Complexity Life without Selection The Startups of Life Amino Acids – the Entrepreneurs of Life The Secret of Life Evolution through Learning Artificial Neural Networks and DNA Collaboration and Eukaryotes The Importance of Scientific Revolutions Chapter 3. From Complex Organisms to Societies Intelligence Needs Energy Sleep, Death and Reproduction The Limits of Unicellular Organisms From Interaction to Cognitive Processes Nervous System or the Forgotten Transition First Brains and Shallow Neural Networks Societies and Natural Selection Insects and Intelligent Societies The Social Body Chapter 4. The Human Social Brains Why a more Powerful Brain? The Primates' Brain What Makes a Homo The Anatomy of Language Agriculture and Cognitive Social Networks Empires and Networks The Expensive-class Hypothesis Chapter 5. The Human Meta-organism The evolution of communication in Homo sapiens More Communicans than Sapiens Communications Technologies and Topologies Internet Companies The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence Appendix 1. More on Networks and Information Physicists don't like Networking Abby Normal Distributions Networks and Power The Emergence of Small-world Networks Entropy of Networks Barabasi-Albert small-world networks Why Power Law Appears in Networks Code snippet: entropy of scale-free networks Appendix 2. Math and real life Two scientists playing roulette Complexity in Numbers Appendix 3. How Artificial Neural Networks Work References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Open
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 113 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 155.7; Human evolution; Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030259624; 3030259625
• Related ISBNs: 9783030259617
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 24, 2019).
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