What Do You Think about Machines That Think? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence ebook MOBI, FB2, DJV
9780062425669 English 0062425668 As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman's latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling "Edge Question Series" asks more than 175 leading scientists, philosophers, and artists: What do you think about machines that think? The development of artificial intelligence has been a source of fascination and anxiety ever since Alan Turing formalized the concept in 1950. Today, Stephen Hawking believes that AI "could spell the end of the human race." At the very least, its development raises complicated moral issues with powerful real-world implicationsfor us and for our machines. In this volume, recording artist Brian Eno proposes that we're already part of an AI: global civilization, or what TED curator Chris Anderson elsewhere calls the hive mind. And author Pamela McCorduck considers what drives us to pursue AI in the first place. On the existential threat posed by superintelligent machines, Steven Pinker questions the likelihood of a robot uprising. Douglas Coupland traces discomfort with human-programmed AI to deeper fears about what constitutes "humanness." Martin Rees predicts the end of organic thinking, while Daniel C. Dennett explains why he believes the Singularity might be an urban legend. Provocative, enriching, and accessible, What Do You Think About Machines That Think? may just be a practical guide to the not-so-distant future., Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think."Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of "superintelligence" in which smart devices will exponentially extend human capacities. No longer just a matter of science-fiction fantasy (2001, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Her, etc.), it is time to seriously consider the reality of intelligent technology, many forms of which are already being integrated into our daily lives. In that spirit, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("the world's smartest website" The Guardian), asked the world's most influential scientists, philosophers, and artists one of today's most consequential questions: What do you think about machines that think?Steven Pinker considers the internal metal life of robots * Frank Tipler explains how artificial intelligence (AI) will save humanity and colonize space * Martin Rees explores why humans are merely an evolutionary stage on the path to a machine-dominated world * Nicholas Carr examines the challenges of maintaining control over machines * Daniel C. Dennett identifies the true danger of the coming technological "singularity" * Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek asserts that all intelligence is machine intelligence * musician Brian Eno suggests that human society remains our most powerful supercomputer * George Dyson argues that genuine creative thinking will always be analog, not digital * Alison Gopnik asks whether machines will ever be as smart as a three-year-old * Richard Thaler thinks human stupidity will always impede artificial intelligence * Wired founder Kevin Kelly calls AIs an "alien intelligence" * plus contributions from Nobel laureate John C. Mather, Matt Ridley, Freeman Dyson, Douglas Rushkoff, Helen Fisher, Sam Harris, George Church, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Esther Dyson, Nick Bostrom, and others."
9780062425669 English 0062425668 As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman's latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling "Edge Question Series" asks more than 175 leading scientists, philosophers, and artists: What do you think about machines that think? The development of artificial intelligence has been a source of fascination and anxiety ever since Alan Turing formalized the concept in 1950. Today, Stephen Hawking believes that AI "could spell the end of the human race." At the very least, its development raises complicated moral issues with powerful real-world implicationsfor us and for our machines. In this volume, recording artist Brian Eno proposes that we're already part of an AI: global civilization, or what TED curator Chris Anderson elsewhere calls the hive mind. And author Pamela McCorduck considers what drives us to pursue AI in the first place. On the existential threat posed by superintelligent machines, Steven Pinker questions the likelihood of a robot uprising. Douglas Coupland traces discomfort with human-programmed AI to deeper fears about what constitutes "humanness." Martin Rees predicts the end of organic thinking, while Daniel C. Dennett explains why he believes the Singularity might be an urban legend. Provocative, enriching, and accessible, What Do You Think About Machines That Think? may just be a practical guide to the not-so-distant future., Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think."Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of "superintelligence" in which smart devices will exponentially extend human capacities. No longer just a matter of science-fiction fantasy (2001, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Her, etc.), it is time to seriously consider the reality of intelligent technology, many forms of which are already being integrated into our daily lives. In that spirit, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("the world's smartest website" The Guardian), asked the world's most influential scientists, philosophers, and artists one of today's most consequential questions: What do you think about machines that think?Steven Pinker considers the internal metal life of robots * Frank Tipler explains how artificial intelligence (AI) will save humanity and colonize space * Martin Rees explores why humans are merely an evolutionary stage on the path to a machine-dominated world * Nicholas Carr examines the challenges of maintaining control over machines * Daniel C. Dennett identifies the true danger of the coming technological "singularity" * Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek asserts that all intelligence is machine intelligence * musician Brian Eno suggests that human society remains our most powerful supercomputer * George Dyson argues that genuine creative thinking will always be analog, not digital * Alison Gopnik asks whether machines will ever be as smart as a three-year-old * Richard Thaler thinks human stupidity will always impede artificial intelligence * Wired founder Kevin Kelly calls AIs an "alien intelligence" * plus contributions from Nobel laureate John C. Mather, Matt Ridley, Freeman Dyson, Douglas Rushkoff, Helen Fisher, Sam Harris, George Church, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Esther Dyson, Nick Bostrom, and others."