<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dear AI enthusiast</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">and/or</span>
AI c<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">olleague,</span></span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">this book addresses the general
public that wants to be informed about and form her/his own opinion on AI. It
provides a simplified yet scientifically accurate description of all AI
aspects: technology (Part A), relation to human intelligence (Part B), social
aspects (Part C) and AI impact on Environment (Part D). No special
knowledge is needed to read it.</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">A </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">updated <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">edition of \u201cArtificial Intelligence Science and Society Part A:
Introduction to AI Science and Information Technology\u201c (paperback and e-book
versions only) is now available in Amazon/Kindle.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">T<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">he first edition
(October 2022) of this 4-volume book was quite prophetic on various AI topics
(e.g., on the development of Deep Arts, or the </span>failure <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">of Metaverse), </span>Its updated edition of <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">Part A </span>presents <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">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. </span></span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">AI Science and Engineering 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 \u201cArtificial Intelligence
Science and Society\u201d consists of four volumes (parts) debating all technical
and social grand challenges of AI Science and Engineering in an understandable
and scientifically accurate manner:</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">\u201cArtificial Intelligence Science and
Society Part A: Introduction to AI Science and Information Technology\u201c</span> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">\u201cArtificial Intelligence
Science and Society Part B: AI Science, Mind and Humans\u201c <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" title="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">\u201cArtificial Intelligence
Science and Society Part C: AI Science and Society\u201c <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" title="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">\u201cArtificial Intelligence Science and
Society Part D: AI Science and the Environment\u201c</span> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" title="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color:blue">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></span></li>
</ol>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">They are self-sufficient and
require no mathematical/scientific background. 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. They are published in Amazon/Kindle.</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Part A Table of contents (297
pages): Data, Signals, Systems, Mathematics, Data Acquisition, Processing and
Analysis, Data Storage and Search, Computer Vision, Data Visualization,
Computer Graphics and Animation, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Audio, Speech,
and Text Analysis, Machine Learning. Pattern Recognition, Deep Learning,
Information, Metadata, Semantics, Concepts, Symbolic Artificial Intelligence,
Knowledge, Anthropocentric Computing, Robotics, Autonomy, Networks and the
Internet, The World Wide Web, Social Media, Network analytics, Swarm
Intelligence, Software, Computing, Communications, Security, Blockchain, Large
Language Models and Artificial General Intelligence.</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Part B Table of contents
(276 pages): Nervous System, Brain, Brain imaging, Brain connectome, Neural and
Brain Models, Sensing, Human Senses, Perception, Interoception, Physical
Intelligen, Action and Motion, Mind, Cognition, Memory, Intelligence, Affect,
Affective Computing, Language and Speech, Written Language and Communication,
Consciousness and Self-awareness, Self-aware Machines, Computational Brain
Modeling Tools, Brain-Inspired Computing, Medicine, Medical Genomics, Medical
Data, Medical Disinformation, Pharmaceutics and Drug Discovery,
Anti-vaccination Movement, Ambient Assisted Living, Minors, Sex, Pornography,
Social Flexibility and Personal Relations.</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Part C Table of contents
(335 pages): Identity, Intellectual Property,Privacy protection, Fake data,
News and Agora, Media Production and Streaming, Music and Dance, Digital
Humanities, Ex machina Arts, Computational Aesthetics, Research, Research Dissemination,
Morphosis, Educational Methods, Education and Society, Truth, Justice, Digital
Crime, Digital Markets,Online Marketing, Finance and Economics, AI and IT
Economics, Cryptocurrencies, Non-Fungible Tokens, Digital Governance, Industry,
Labor, Meta-agoras and Meta-societies, Politics and Democracy, Computational
Politics, Societal and Political Networks, Social Activism, Irrationalism and
Anti-elitism, Virtual Communities and Disinformation, Political Activism,
Computational History, Computational Social Science, Ethics and Philosophy,
Religion, Religious Practice and AI, Religious Art, War and Peace, Advanced
Warfare, Revolution, Geopolitics, Trustworthy AI, Information and Knowledge
society.</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Part D Table of contents
(177 pages): Space and Time, Life, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Animal and
Plant Intelligence, Bio-inspired Machines, Epidemiology, Microcosm, Ecology,
Agriculture, Sustainable and Precision Agriculture, Organic Farming, Earth
Sensing, Meteorology, Climate Change, Archaeology and Restoration, Smart
Cities, Land Transportation, Shipping, Aviation, Renewable Energy, Green
Information Technologies, Sustainable Earth Resources, Geology and Seismology,
Space and Astronomy, Law of Complexity.</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">About the author</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">:
Dr. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP
fellow) is </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">a
Principal Researcher at <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">AUTH and </span>CERTH/ITI,
Thessaloniki, Greece. He was <span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">Director of the
Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (<a href="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" title="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" style="color:blue">AIIA</a>)
lab</span> at the School of Informatics, AUTH<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">. He
served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities worldwide. As a
well-known AI futurist, in the past 3 years, he has published numerous
articles and delivered many lectures and interviews in the international media
on the future of AI. Quite a few of them were proven to be prophetic.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">His
current interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine
learning, computer vision, autonomous systems, intelligent digital media, and
human-centred computing. He has published over 920 papers, contributed to 45
books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He
has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences
and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 13
international journals and General or Technical Chair of 5 international
conferences. He delivered 98 keynote/invited speeches worldwide. He
co-organized 33 conferences and participated in technical committees of 291
conferences. He participated in 75+ R&D projects, primarily funded by the
European Union and is/was principal investigator in 47 such projects. He is the
coordinator of the Horizon Europe R&D project TEMA <a href="https://tema-project.eu/" title="https://tema-project.eu/" style="color:blue">https://tema-project.eu/</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">.<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">
He is chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" title="https://www.i-aida.org/" style="color:blue">https://www.i-aida.org/</a>.
He was chair and initiator of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative <a href="https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/" style="color:blue">https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/</a>.
</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">He
has </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">40,000<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">+ citations to his work and h-index </span>93<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)">+. According to <a href="https://research.com/" title="https://research.com/" style="color:blue">https://research.com/</a> he is ranked first
in Greece and 319 worldwide in the field of Computer Science (2022).</span></span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">This book is a result of a
two-year effort by Prof. Ioannis. Pitas 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).</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Enjoy!</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Prof. Ioannis. Pitas</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer, EURASIP fellow, Chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (<a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" title="https://www.i-aida.org/" style="color:blue">AIDA</a>),
Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (<a href="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" title="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" style="color:blue">AIIA</a>)
Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="mailto:pitas@csd.auth.gr" title="mailto:pitas@csd.auth.gr" style="color:blue">pitas@csd.auth.gr</a></span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p></div>