Artificial You (eBook)

AI and the Future of Your Mind

Susan Schneider (Autor)

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2019
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19777-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Hailed by the Washington Post as "e;a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain,"e; a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls "e;profound and entertaining"e;Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind?In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "e;tools"e; they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms.At the heart of her exploration is a sober-minded discussion of what AI can truly achieve: Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with AI, as tech leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is the mind just a program? Examining these thorny issues, Schneider proposes ways we can test for machine consciousness, questions whether consciousness is an unavoidable byproduct of sophisticated intelligence, and considers the overall dangers of creating machine minds.

Autor

Susan Schneider is the Distinguished Scholar at the Library of Congress and the director of the AI, Mind and Society Group at the University of Connecticut. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Fox TV, History Channel, and more. Her two-year NASA project explored superintelligent AI. Previously, she was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton devising tests for AI consciousness. Her books include The Language of Thought, The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, and Science Fiction and Philosophy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Alan Turing • algorithm • Analogy • artificial brain • Artificial consciousness • Artificial Life • Artificial Neural Network • Astrobiology • Behavior • Biological naturalism • Bite the bullet • Brain Implant • brain tumor • Calculation • carl sagan • Causality • Chinese Room • Cognitive Architecture • cognitive science • Computation • Computational resource • computational theory of mind • Computer • Computer Security • Computronium • Consciousness • Database • Designer • Duke University • Engineering • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence • exoplanet • Extraterrestrial Life • Glimmer • global catastrophic risk • Hard problem of consciousness • Harvard University • High- and low-level • Human Intelligence • humility • Indication (medicine) • Instance (computer science) • Intelligence explosion • interaction • Isomorph • Lecture • Life extension • Lunch • Massively parallel (computing) • mind uploading • Mirror test • Molecule • Neural correlates of consciousness • Neuralink • Neuroscience • Nick Bostrom • Nootropic • Panpsychism • Personal Identity • Personhood • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy of mind • Physicalism • Piet Hut • Posttraumatic stress disorder • Princeton University • Processing (programming language) • Qualia • Quantity • Quantum Computing • Ray Kurzweil • reason • Requirement • Reverse Engineering • Robot Dreams • Robot Dreams (short story) • Scientific American • Scientist • Sophistication • Stanford University • Stephen Hawking • Suggestion • Supercomputer • Superintelligence • synthetic intelligence • Technological Change • Technological singularity • Technology • The Future of the Mind • The New York Times • theory • Thought • Thought experiment • Transhumanism • Uncertainty • University of Colorado • Upload • working memory • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19777-6 / 0691197776
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19777-7 / 9780691197777