Steve Shwartz

There have been numerous books and movies describing and predicting doomsday scenarios for artificial intelligence such as intelligent robots that take over the world. Technologists like Elon Musk proclaim that AI represents a colossal threat to humanity. They are wrong. "Evil Robots..." explains why. The book explains the technology behind many different types of high-profile AI systems including facial recognition systems like those found in Apple and Google Photos, machine translation… Show more

There have been numerous books and movies describing and predicting doomsday scenarios for artificial intelligence such as intelligent robots that take over the world. Technologists like Elon Musk proclaim that AI represents a colossal threat to humanity. They are wrong. "Evil Robots..." explains why. The book explains the technology behind many different types of high-profile AI systems including facial recognition systems like those found in Apple and Google Photos, machine translation systems like Google Translate, the Watson computer that beat the Jeopardy! champions, self-driving cars, deepfakes, and much more.

More importantly, the book explains why the technology behind each of these systems will never lead to robots that are intelligent enough to take over the world. The book also catalogs the social issues that are caused by AI such as invasion of privacy, discrimination, and loss of jobs and explains why each of these issues can be resolved if we don’t inflate them by worrying about machines with human-level intelligence.

Note: Publication date is projected as December, 2020. Show less

The AI Handbook is a free online reference that explains how AI works. It has 15 chapters, 400 pages, and 3000 references and has no advanced mathematics.

Explains how natural language technology works and how it can be used in commercial settings.

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The how, what, and why of… Show more

Avoiding the $995 mistake that can ruin your data warehouse initiative. American Programmer. Vol. 8, No 5. May 1995.

End users must understand database design. Computer Technology Review. August, 1990.

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Capacity limitations in human information processing. Memory & Cognition, 4(6), 763 - 768, 1976.

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Three-dimensional rotation revisited: Picture plane rotation is really faster than depth rotation. Cognitive Science Technical Report #10, Yale University, Jan., 1981.

The search for pronominal referents. Cognitive Science Technical Report #9, Yale University, Jan., 1981.
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Foreword. R. Keller, Expert System Technology: Development & Application. NJ: Yourdon Press. 1987.

The role of knowledge engineering in natural language systems, with R. Schank, in S.A. Andriole (ed.), Commercial AI Systems, New Jersey, Petrocelli. 1985.

Querying computer databases, with W. Lehnert. In A. Grasser and J. Black (eds.), Theories of Question Answering, 1985.

Natural language processing in the commercial world, in W. Reitman (ed.), Artificial… Show more

Foreword. R. Keller, Expert System Technology: Development & Application. NJ: Yourdon Press. 1987.

The role of knowledge engineering in natural language systems, with R. Schank, in S.A. Andriole (ed.), Commercial AI Systems, New Jersey, Petrocelli. 1985.

Querying computer databases, with W. Lehnert. In A. Grasser and J. Black (eds.), Theories of Question Answering, 1985.

Natural language processing in the commercial world, in W. Reitman (ed.), Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business, New Jersey: Ablex, 1984.

A computer simulation approach to studying visual imagery, with S. Kosslyn. In J. Mehler, E.C.T. Walker, and M. Garrett (Eds.), Perspectives on Mental Representations. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1982.

Empirical constraints on theories of mental imagery, with S. Kosslyn. In A. Baddeley and J. Long (eds.), Attention and Performance IX, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1981.

Visual images as spatial representations in active memory, with S. Kosslyn. In E. Hanson and D. Riseman (eds.), Computer Vision Systems, Academic Press, 1978. Show less

Critical requirements for end user data access. Proceedings of the DB/Expo Conference, San Francisco, CA, April, 1996.

Getting the SQL right. Proceedings of the DB/Expo Conference, New York, NY, December, 1995.

Avoiding the $995 mistake that can ruin your data warehousing initiative. Proceedings of the DCI Data Warehouse Conference, Washington, D.C., September, 1994.

Integrating expert systems and natural language to achieve competitive advantage. Proceedings of the… Show more

Critical requirements for end user data access. Proceedings of the DB/Expo Conference, San Francisco, CA, April, 1996.

Getting the SQL right. Proceedings of the DB/Expo Conference, New York, NY, December, 1995.

Avoiding the $995 mistake that can ruin your data warehousing initiative. Proceedings of the DCI Data Warehouse Conference, Washington, D.C., September, 1994.

Integrating expert systems and natural language to achieve competitive advantage. Proceedings of the Conference on Advanced Technologies to Reengineer the Insurance Process, New York, May, 1992.

Integrating natural language with expert systems for information retrieval. Proceedings of the Conference on Expert Systems in the Insurance Industry, Boston, MA, May, 1991.

The natural language debate. Proceedings of the DB/Expo Conference, San Francisco, CA, March, 1991.

End user access to relational databases. Proceedings of the Database World Conference, Boston, MA, December, 1990.

Coming to grips with AI. Proceedings of the DB/Expo Conference, San Francisco, CA, March, 1990.

The problem of querying relational databases. Proceedings of the Database World Conference, Boston, MA, December, 1989.

Evaluating natural language systems: Tools vs. Application. Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computer Technology Conference, Long Beach, CA, May, 1985.

EASYTALK: A natural language application. Proceedings of the Conference on Applied AI and Expert Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, Nov., 1984

Problems with domain-independent natural-language database access systems. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, June, 1982.

Natural language database access. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czechosolovakia, 1982.

The recognition of complex disoriented objects. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Cognitive Science Conference, Berkeley, CA, 1981. Show less