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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Dear AI professional, student, enthusiast,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>a new edition (May 2023) of “Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part A: Introduction to AI Science and Information Technology“ (paperback and e-book versions only) is now available in Amazon/Kindle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Thought the first edition (October 2023) of this 4-volume book was quite prophetic on various AI topics (e.g., on the development of Deep Arts, or the very slow adoption of Metaverse), I felt the need to add two sections in its Part A on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to clarify issues that sprang out of ChatGPT success, primarily on AI technophobia and on the long-term AI prospects. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>AI Science and Engineering </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>is un upcoming scientific discipline that can fuse AI, brain and mind studies and social engineering in a new scientific discipline. It has huge impact on both our society and environment. The new book <b>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society”</b> consists of four volumes (parts) debating all technical and social grand challenges of AI Science and Engineering in an understandable and scientifically accurate manner. They are published in Amazon/Kindle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>The first volume <b>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part A: Introduction to AI Science and Information Technology“ </b></span><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></b></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'> overviews the entire domain of <b>AI Science/Engineering and Information Technology (IT)</b>. It presents various hot AI and IT disciplines, e.g., Deep Learning, Symbolic AI, Signals and Systems, Computer Vision, Robotics and Autonomy, Networks and Social Media, Security and Blockchain (partial list). It requires no mathematical/scientific background. Yet it is scientifically precise and clarifies many misunderstandings and wrong concepts that can be routinely found in the related literature. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Here is just an indicative list of few of the debated topics and grand AI challenges:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Are Large Language Models (LLMs) a precursor of Artificial General Intelligence?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Why LLMs hallucinate?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Does Generative AI pose a serious threat to humanity?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Is AI Science and Technology a scientific discipline in its own right?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>What is the difference between data, information, and knowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>How can we quantify knowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>What is the relation of Machine learning, AI and metadata, semantics and concepts?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Can Virtual Reality truly empower meta-societies or is it just a hype? <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Can AI-powered human-centred computing surpass human intelligence?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Why swarm intelligence is so powerful?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>How networks analytics and epidemiology explain the propagation of ideas in social media?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>How can we protect digital documents from tampering?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Part A Table of contents (276 pages)</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>: Data</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Signals</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Systems</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Mathematics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Data Acquisition, Processing and Analysis</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Data Storage and Search</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Computer Vision</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Data Visualization</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Computer Graphics and Animation</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Virtual and Augmented Reality</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Audio, Speech, and Text Analysis</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Machine Learning. Pattern Recognition</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Deep Learning</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Information</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Metadata, Semantics, Concepts</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Symbolic Artificial Intelligence</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Knowledge</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Anthropocentric Computing</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Robotics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Autonomy</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Networks and the Internet</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>The World Wide Web</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Social Media</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Network analytics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Swarm Intelligence</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Software</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Computing</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Communications</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Security</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Blockchain</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Part A provides the scientific background to understand the other three book parts: </span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>AI Science, brain, mind, and humans (Part B), AI and its impact on society, including AI Ethics (Part C) and the impact of AI and Information Science on the environment (Part D). <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part B: AI Science, Mind and Humans“ (276 pages) </span></b><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></b></a></span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part C: AI Science and Society“ (335 pages) </span></b><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></b></a></span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part D: AI Science and the Environment“ (177 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo6'><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></b></a></span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>The four book volumes debate and try to forecast the future of AI Science and Engineering, as well as the upcoming Mind and Social Science and Engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>About the author: This book is a result of a two-year effort by <b>Prof. Ioannis. Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow)</b> and was influenced by his being principal investigator of 75+ R&D projects on Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Digital Media and chairing the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA). Prof. I. Pitas is Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) lab at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He was chair and initiator of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI). He has (co-)authored 15 books, 45 book chapters and over 950 papers in the above topics. He has 34500+ citations to his work and h-index 87+. He is ranked 319 worldwide and first in Greece in the field of Computer Science (2022).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Prof. Ioannis. Pitas</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>