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Bio-inspired artificial intelligence: theories, methods, and technologies.
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| Author | Floreano, Dario Garibay, Ivan Garibay, I. |
| Editor | Mattiussi, Claudio |
| Abstract | Traditionally artificial intelligence has been focused on attempting to replicate the cognitive abilities of the human brain. Alternative approaches to artificial intelligence take inspiration from a wider range of biological processes such as evolution, networks of neurons and learning. In recent decades there has been an explosion of new artificial intelligence methods inspired by even more biological processes, such as the immune system, colonies of ants, physical embodiment, development, coevolution, self-organization, and behavioral autonomy, to mention just a few. ‘‘Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies’’, by Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi, is a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the emerging field that groups all these methods: biologically inspired artificial intelligence. As a result, it discusses biological and artificial systems that operate at a wide range of time and space scales, but manages to move fluently from slow evolutionary time, to life-time learning, to real time adaptation. On the space scale, it goes from individual cells and neurons, to multicellular organisms, and all the way to societies. I found this book notable for at least two reasons. First, it provides a coherent intellectual framework to organize all these computational developments by grounding them in their biological nature and in the pervasiveness of evolution throughout biology. Second, it provides a clear, wellwritten, comprehensive, and authoritative account of these developments in an educational format well suited for a classroom. The authors manage to do all of that in only 659 pages, a great accomplishment considering the scope and depth of this book. The book is organized in seven chapters: evolutionary systems, cellular systems, neural systems, developmental systems, immune systems, behavioral systems and collective systems. The chapters are not independent but meant to be read in order |
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