Digital Ape

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the world's foremost computer scientists. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is Principal of Jesus College Oxford and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy ofEngineering, a Fellow and former President of the British Computer Society. Roger Hampson is an academic and public servant. He was chief executive of the London Borough of Redbridge for 16 years until early 2016. Until 1986, he was an academic economist of social policy, latterly research fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. He was a member of the Local Public Data Panel, and a non-executive director of the Open Data Institute.

Rich in ideas and insights, the book is especially strong on our growing personal relationships with Alexa and other robots... An upbeat-even reassuring-take on what will be an AI-saturated future.

• Chapter 1 Biology and technology Chapter 2 Our hyper-complex habitat Chapter 3 The digital ape emerges Chapter 4 Social machines Chapter 5 Artificial and natural intelligence Chapter 6 New companions Chapter 7 Big beasts Chapter 8 The challenge of data Chapter 9 Augmented wisdom? Afterword 311Chapter References Bibliography