JBWT00-12 John Brockman - What to Think About Machines That Think.nfo
General Information
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Title: What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Author: John Brockman
Read By: Brett Barry, Lisa Larsen
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - Science & Technology
Publisher: Harper Audio
Abridged: No
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Media: Digital
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Total Duration: 14:59:39
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman's
latest addition to the acclaimed and best-selling 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 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 Do You Think About Machines
That Think? may just be a practical guide to the not-so-distant future.
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