{ "item_title" : "AI and the Reinvention of Knowledge", "item_author" : [" Govind Pathak "], "item_description" : "AI can generate an answer in seconds. What does it take to turn that answer into knowledge?Artificial intelligence can predict protein structures, help decipher ancient scrolls, propose new molecules, assist with mathematical proofs, and create images, music, and prose. These achievements are changing how people investigate the world and express what they find.They also raise a difficult question. When a machine produces a convincing claim, who establishes that it is true?For centuries, instruments extended human observation. A telescope revealed distant galaxies; a microscope exposed structures too small to see. Researchers still had to interpret the evidence, test their conclusions, and invite others to challenge them. AI now participates in more of that intellectual work. It can identify patterns, generate hypotheses, and present explanations in fluent language. As the production of plausible claims becomes faster, the work of checking them becomes more consequential.In AI and the Reinvention of Knowledge, Govind Pathak examines this shift across mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, climate science, astronomy, history, archaeology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, literature, music, visual art, cinema, education, and public policy.The book moves between the possibilities AI opens and the questions those possibilities leave unresolved. What can an AI system actually do in each field? How is its output tested? What data and human work made it possible? Who receives credit, who benefits, and who is accountable when a result is wrong or causes harm?Drawing on cases ranging from AlphaFold and the Herculaneum scrolls to AI-assisted medical screening, copyright disputes, and India's AI and language initiatives, Pathak offers a framework for examining six dimensions of AI capability and five stages in the life of a knowledge claim. The aim is to help readers look beyond the apparent confidence of an output and examine the evidence and institutions that support it.Inside, you will explore: Why AI changes the burden of verification without removing itHow to distinguish a useful AI result from a claim that has earned trustWhat AI means for expertise, research, careers, and educationHow training data, copyright, computing power, and public policy influence who benefitsWhy the same AI capability can have different consequences across fields and communitiesPractical questions for evaluating AI claims and decisionsWritten for technology leaders, researchers, policymakers, educators, and curious general readers, AI and the Reinvention of Knowledge provides a way to think clearly about a profound change: machines can contribute to discovery and creation, but knowledge still depends on evidence, judgment, and the ability to question what we are told.The future of knowledge will be shaped by what AI can generate and by how carefully we decide what to believe.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/505/9798165054150_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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