Possible minds : twenty-five ways of looking at AI
Title:
Possible minds : twenty-five ways of looking at AI
ISBN:
9780525557999
Physical Description:
xxvi, 293 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Wrong, but more relevant than ever / The limitations of opaque learning machines / The purpose put into the machine / The third law / What can we do? / The inhuman mess our machines have gotten us into / The unity of intelligence / Let's aspire to more than making ourselves obsolete / Dissident messages / Tech prophecy and the underappreciated causal power of ideas / Beyond reward and punishment / The artificial use of human beings / Putting the human into the AI equation / Gradient descent / "Information" for Wiener, for Shannon, and for us / Scaling / The first machine intelligences / Will computers become our overlords? / The human strategy / Making the invisible visible : art meets AI / AIs versus four-year-olds / Algorists dream of objectivity / The rights of machines / The artistic use of cybernetic beings / Artificial intelligence and the future of civilization
Summary:
"Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human"-- Provided by publisher.
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