Human and Machines: Philosophical Thinking of Artificial Intelligence

This book shares Chinese scholars' philosophical views on artificial intelligence. The discussions range from the foundations of AI--the Turing test and creation of machine intelligence--to recent applications of AI, including decisions in games, natural languages, pattern recognition, prediction in economic contexts, autonomous behaviors, and collaborative intelligence, with the examples of AlphaGo, Microsoft's Xiao Bing, medical robots, etc. The book's closing chapter focuses on Chinese machines and explores questions on the cultural background of artificial intelligence. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for all members of the general public who are interested in the future development of artificial intelligence, especially from the perspective of respected Chinese scholars.

這本書分享了中國學者對人工智慧的哲學觀點。討論範圍從人工智慧的基礎，如圖靈測試和機器智能的創造，到最近的人工智慧應用，包括遊戲中的決策、自然語言、模式識別、經濟預測、自主行為和協同智能，並以AlphaGo、微軟的小冰、醫療機器人等為例。本書的結尾章節聚焦於中國機器，並探討人工智慧的文化背景問題。鑑於其範圍，本書對所有對人工智慧未來發展感興趣的公眾人士，特別是從尊重的中國學者的角度來看，提供了一個寶貴的資源。

Jun Gu is a professor at School of Social Sciences, Shanghai University, China, an independent planner, and a freelance writer. Prof. Gu graduated from East China Normal University, China, in 1989. He has been following the social transformation and public governance in contemporary China for a long time, focusing on the study of social science and technology and its application in social governance. He has served as an advisory expert for decision-making of the Chinese government at all levels and special commentator of a number of Chinese media. Prof. Gu planned and presided over a series of courses on Major Country Strategies, authored books "State Operation and Relief for the People - China's Solution to the Mystery of China", and edited "Major Country Strategies - the Road to the World" and "the Great Craftsman on the Road to Innovation". He is fond of wisdom research, exploring the thinking methods and solutions of different culture to basic human problems, and the contemporary applications of traditional wisdom. He published monographs including "Personality- Ethical Interaction- Community: the Wisdom between Human Beings", "Jewish Wisdom: Human Wisdom that Created Miracles", "the Resourceful Structure of Traditional Chinese Merchants", "Community Mediation and Social Stability", "Flow and Order", "Vitality and Order", and "Harmonious society and public governance - a collection of Jun Gu's political comments".

Yike Guo received his B.E. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China, in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Imperial College London, UK, in 1993. He is a tenured professor at Imperial College London, UK, and the director of the Institute of Data Science and Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is one of the first distinguished professors in the Shanghai Thousand Talents Program and was appointed as the dean of the School of Computer Engineering and Science at Shanghai University in 2015. He is one of the first members of the big data expert committee of China Computer Association, a general consultant of China Science Data, a distinguished expert of Shanghai, Beijing, and Jiangsu, a chief scientist of Big Data of Shanghai Industry Research Institute, and a chief scientific consultant of artificial intelligence of Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. He is a member of the Royal Academy and the chair of the top international conference on data science, KDD 2018. He has made a series of important achievements in data science and its applied research. As the project leader, he received more than 130 million pounds of research funding from the British Engineering and Physical Science Foundation, the British national Medical Research council and the European Union Foundation. He has rich experience in organizing large-scale interdisciplinary research projects and the ability to lead world-class research institutions. The research institute of data science of Imperial College under his leadership has made outstanding achievements and has become an important center of Data Science Research in the UK. His data economy laboratory has done a lot of pioneering work on blockchain and virtual currency and has good cooperation with enterprises such as CCB International and HNA group. His scientific research insight and international vision are very prominent among Chinese overseas scientists, and he has an important influence in the world. He is a leading figure in international data science and artificial intelligence research.

The translator of the book, Dr. Jiajun Xu, graduated from Shanghai International Studies University, China. He presided over and participated in 4 projects of the Ministry of Education and Municipal Education Commission. Dr. Xu published 4 monographs and 1 translated book. His main direction of studying includes linguistics, translation, and cultural industry management.

顧軍教授是中國上海大學社會科學學院的教授，也是一位獨立策劃師和自由作家。顧教授於1989年畢業於中國華東師範大學。他長期關注當代中國的社會轉型和公共治理，專注於社會科學和技術研究及其在社會治理中的應用。他曾擔任中國各級政府決策的諮詢專家和多家中國媒體的特約評論員。顧教授策劃並主持了一系列關於大國戰略的課程，撰寫了《國家運作與民生救濟-中國解開中國之謎的方案》一書，並編輯了《大國戰略-通往世界的道路》和《創新之路上的偉大工匠》。他熱衷於智慧研究，探索不同文化對基本人類問題的思考方法和解決方案，以及傳統智慧在當代的應用。他出版了包括《個性-倫理互動-社區：人與人之間的智慧》、《猶太智慧：創造奇蹟的人類智慧》、《傳統中國商人的資源結構》、《社區調解與社會穩定》、《流動與秩序》、《活力與秩序》和《和諧社會與公共治理-顧軍政治評論集》等專著。

郭翼斯於1985年獲得中國清華大學計算機科學學士學位，並於1993年獲得英國倫敦帝國學院計算機科學博士學位。他是英國倫敦帝國學院的終身教授，也是數據科學研究所的所長和英國皇家工程院院士。他是上海千人計劃的首批特聘教授之一，並於2015年被任命為上海大學計算機工程與科學學院院長。他是中國計算機學會大數據專家委員會的首批成員之一，中國科學數據的總顧問，上海、北京和江蘇的特聘專家，上海產業研究院大數據首席科學家，以及Vivo移動通信有限公司人工智能首席科學顧問。他是英國皇家學院的成員，也是國際頂級數據科學會議KDD 2018的主席。他在數據科學及其應用研究方面取得了一系列重要成就。作為項目負責人，他從英國工程和物理科學基金會、英國國家醫學研究委員會和歐洲聯盟基金獲得了超過1.3億英鎊的研究資金。他在組織大規模跨學科研究項目和領導世界一流研究機構方面擁有豐富經驗。在他的領導下，倫敦帝國學院的數據科學研究所取得了傑出成就，成為英國數據科學研究的重要中心。他的數據經濟實驗室在區塊鏈和虛擬貨幣方面做了大量開創性工作，並與建設銀行國際和海航集團等企業有良好的合作。他在中國海外科學家中的科研洞察力和國際視野非常突出，在世界上具有重要影響力。他是國際數據科學和人工智能研究的領軍人物。

本書的翻譯者徐佳軍博士畢業於中國上海外國語大學。他主持和參與了教育部和市教委的4個項目。徐博士出版了4本專著和1本翻譯書籍。他的主要研究方向包括語言學、翻譯和文化產業管理。