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What To Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers On The Age Of Machine Intelligence
What To Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers On The Age Of Machine Intelligence
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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 implications—for 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 to Think About Machines That Think may just be a practical guide to the not-so-distant future.
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Explores AI's moral, philosophical, and social implications.
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This book is a thought-provoking collection that captures diverse perspectives on the complex world of artificial intelligence. If you're curious about how AI influences our future and challenges our ideas of humanity, this engaging compilation offers insights from renowned thinkers that will resonate with anyone contemplating the moral and existential questions of our technological age.