

Rama Chellappa, PhD
with Eric Niiler
Artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. How can we address its limitations and guide its use for the benefit of communities worldwide?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an experimental computer algorithm used by academic researchers to a commercially reliable method of sifting through large sets of data that detect patterns not readily apparent through more rudimentary search tools. As a result, AI-based programs are helping doctors make more informed decisions about patient care, city planners align roads and highways to reduce traffic congestion with better efficiency...
Artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. How can we address its limitations and guide its use for the benefit of communities worldwide?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an experimental computer algorithm used by academic researchers to a commercially reliable method of sifting through large sets of data that detect patterns not readily apparent through more rudimentary search tools. As a result, AI-based programs are helping doctors make more informed decisions about patient care, city planners align roads and highways to reduce traffic congestion with better efficiency, and merchants scan financial transactions to quickly flag suspicious purchases. But as AI applications grow, concerns have increased, too, including worries about applications that amplify existing biases in business practices and about the safety of self-driving vehicles.
In Can We Trust AI?, Dr. Rama Chellappa, a researcher and innovator with 40 years in the field, recounts the evolution of AI, its current uses, and how it will drive industries and shape lives in the future. Leading AI researchers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs contribute their expertise as well on how AI works, what we can expect from it, and how it can be harnessed to make our lives not only safer and more convenient but also more equitable.
Can We Trust AI? is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the potential—and pitfalls—of artificial intelligence. The book features:
• an exploration of AI's origins during the post–World War II era through the computer revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and its explosion among technology firms since 2012;
• highlights of innovative ways that AI can diagnose medical conditions more quickly and accurately;
• explanations of how the combination of AI and robotics is changing how we drive; and
• interviews with leading AI researchers who are pushing the boundaries of AI for the world's benefit and working to make its applications safer and more just.
Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
In classrooms, field stations, and laboratories in Baltimore and around the world, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professors of Johns Hopkins University are opening the boundaries of our understanding of many of the world's most complex challenges. The Johns Hopkins Wavelengths book series brings readers inside their stories, illustrating how their pioneering discoveries and innovations benefit people in their neighborhoods and across the globe in artificial intelligence, cancer research, food systems' environmental impacts, health equity, planetary science, science diplomacy, and other critical arenas of study. Through these compelling narratives, their insights will spark conversations from dorm rooms to dining rooms to boardrooms.
Drawing on interviews with researchers pushing the boundaries of AI for the world's benefit and working to make its applications safer and more just, Can We Trust AI? responds with a qualified affirmative.
In Can We Trust AI?, Chellappa explores both the promise and peril of AI. For readers searching for an understanding how AI came to be...Chellappa situates AI in an historical context that is thorough, and thoroughly fascinating. Most refreshing is his current assessment of AI that dispels the hype of AI's world takeover....Chellappa gracefully moves among AI's past, present, and future.
Through honest assessments and engaging quotes, sidebars, and stories, Can We Trust AI? provides an impressive account of this fascinating and controversial discipline. Chellappa, a world- renowned scientist and inventor, has devoted his life's work to the research, development, and applications of artificial intelligence. While he's immersed in its complexities, his book provides an accessible entrée to the subject for readers of all backgrounds who wish to learn more about its advantages, capabilities, and potential dangers.
A first-class tour through the evolution, promise and perils of AI by one of its leading lights. A great book for cutting through both the hype and the fear-mongering surrounding AI.
Rama Chellappa's work on automatic recognition of humans has helped define AI research for four decades. In this book, he carefully addresses the history and future of AI, its compelling applications, including in medicine and autonomous driving, and its ethical challenges, questionable uses, potential biases, and privacy issues. It's a terrific and highly personal read!
Artificial intelligence in the past and present; in research labs and industry; in everyday lives and war zones; in reality and science fiction. By going back and forth, Chellappa challenges us to think about what AI truly means to the world, now and into the future. A must-read book for everyone from early adopters of these technologies to their skeptics.
Having made notable contributions to the field throughout his career, Dr. Chellappa is well positioned to predict what AI is capable of and to recognize its current limitations. In this easy-to-follow and insightful book, he weaves together a cautiously optimistic recounting of pioneering advances in AI with a frank reckoning of its potential shortcomings, along with suggestions for improvements, including greater diversity in academic programs and hiring in the field.
Can we trust AI? Are we safer turning the wheel over to our AI driver than we are driving ourselves? Do face recognition systems strengthen or weaken our society? Rama Chellappa, a renowned researcher in AI and computer vision, has written a delightfully personalized and insightful book that rationally addresses these questions and provides the reader with important historical context on the development of AI over the past half-century. A valuable read for anyone interested in how AI will shape our future.
Chellappa provides a wonderful journey through artificial intel- ligence's origins and experiments, and explains how its advances impact the world we're living in today. He shares his expertise on the intricacies of AI technologies and applications in a simple yet effective way.
Grounded in Dr. Chellappa's decades of experience working in the field of artificial intelligence, Can We Trust AI? provides an excellent overview of how these technologies have evolved over the past five decades and offers a realistic opinion on current capabilities. The narrative also addresses several key issues with current AI systems, including bias concerns and the lack of appropriate regulations to prevent their misuse.
Chellappa shares his encyclopedic knowledge of research and applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in a delightfully readable way. This book tackles the controversial issues surrounding AI without the hype, the fear, or the despair of most popular discussions of the subject.
Preface
Chapter 1. The Birth and Growth of AI
Chapter 2. Saving Lives with Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 3. The Complexities and Contributions of Facial Recognition
Chapter 4. The Promise of Autonomous
Preface
Chapter 1. The Birth and Growth of AI
Chapter 2. Saving Lives with Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 3. The Complexities and Contributions of Facial Recognition
Chapter 4. The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles
Chapter 5. AI's Futurescape
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index
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