Full Description
This book examines the revolutionary impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on communication and collaboration. In recent years, advances in large language models and deep learning have enabled seamless human communication across diverse languages and even with other species, such as dogs and humpback whales. AI is also unlocking the language of plants, including tomatoes and the 'wood wide web.'
The book explores how technologies in natural language processing, image recognition, audio analysis, and network analysis facilitate unprecedented fuzzy data analysis. This progress is crucial for promoting sustainability and addressing climate change by uncovering patterns in complex environmental data that inform sustainable practices and policies. The book further focuses on studying interspecies communication, where AI technologies decode communication patterns between humans and other species, allowing a better understanding of the natural world. It highlights how plants can capture human emotions, enhancing well-being and productivity.
Presenting empirical applications and case studies, the book analyzes societal, economic, and ecological implications, advancing theoretical insights, and introducing innovative methods. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars, students, and researchers in the social sciences, economics, business, sociology, psychology, environmental studies, and media and communication who are interested in a deeper understanding of how artificial intelligence and interspecies communication can contribute to building a sustainable future.
Contents
Part I: Interspecies Communication.- Chapter 1. Generative Soil: The Source of Sense in Human Mind and Generative AI.- Chapter 2. Post-Human Communities: Reorganizing Social Relations in the Age of Interspecies Communication.- Chapter 3. Predicting Human Stress and Exam Performance through Variations of the Electrical Potentials of a Basil Plant.- Chapter 4. Can Plants Perceive Human Gestures? Investigating the Impact of Eurythmy on Plant Electrical Potentials with AI-based Gesture Recognition.- Chapter 5. Return to the "Great Mother". Digital Experiences, Communication and Meaning Promises.- Chapter 6. Leveraging Deep Learning to Predict Cat Emotions using Audio.- Chapter 7. Classifying Human Sleep Stages using Plant Sensors.- Part II: AI-powered Society.- Chapter 8. The Algomorphic Society: a Trans-species Technecosystem.- Chapter 9. From Data to Emotion: Accessible Emotion Recognition with Smartphone Sensors and Machine Learning.- Chapter 10. Why is Creative Collaboration with Generative AI Actually Possible? A Theoretical Analysis with Social System Theory and Creative System Theory.- Chapter 11. Predicting personality from text.- Chapter 12. Working on Weekends and Cursing Increases Performance - Measuring Team Success from WhatsApp Messages.- Part III: Sustainable future.- Chapter 13. The Secret Power of Words: Using NLP in Advertising.- Chapter 14. Exploring the convergence of XR and AI potential in healthcare: the TOMMI project case study - Chapter 15. Unveiling the Cultural Dimensions of Health Promotion in Italy: An AI-Driven Analysis of Healthy Lifestyle Interventions.- Chapter 16. Building Bridges: Social Policies and Schools for Genuine Inclusion.- Chapter 17. The Contribution of Deep Learning Techniques in Research on Transition Process Towards More Sustainable and Resilient Agrifood Systems: Emerging Trends and Challenges.- Chapter 18. Driving Public Service Innovation through Citizen Feedback: Insights from Online Reviews.- Chapter 19. Evaluating the impact of government orientation on the adoption of AI in business: a causal inference study.- Chapter 20. Methods and models for co-authorship networks.
