| Description |
xxvi, 293 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : on the promise and peril of AI / by John Brockman -- Wrong, but more relevant than ever / Seth Lloyd -- The limitations of opaque learning machines / Judea Pearl -- The purpose put into the machine / Stuart Russell -- The third law / George Dyson -- What can we do? / Daniel C. Dennett -- The inhuman mess our machines have gotten us into / Rodney Brooks -- The unity of intelligence / Frank Wilczek -- Let's aspire to more than making ourselves obsolete / Max Tegmark -- Dissident messages / Jaan Tallinn -- Tech prophecy and the underappreciated causal power of ideas / Steven Pinker -- Beyond reward and punishment / David Deutsch -- The artificial use of human beings / Tom Griffiths -- Putting the human into the AI equation / Anca Dragan -- Gradient descent / Chris Anderson -- "Information" for Wiener, for Shannon, and for us / David Kaiser -- Scaling / Neil Gershenfeld -- The first machine intelligences / W. Daniel Hillis -- Will computers become our overlords? / Venki Ramakrishnan -- The human strategy / Alex "Sandy" Pentland -- Making the invisible visible : art meets AI / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- AIs versus four-year-olds / Alison Gopnick -- Algorists dream of objectivity / Peter Galison -- The rights of machines / George M. Church -- The artistic use of cybernetic beings / Caroline A. Jones -- Artificial intelligence and the future of civilization / Stephen Wolfram |
| 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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"An unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence, and what it means to be human. "Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time: good AI versus evil AI."--John Brockman. More than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ended with a warning: "We shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions. ... The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door." In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener's words again. In Possible Minds, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI--from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram--[this book] is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures, such as computer scientist Stuart Russell, Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and bestselling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching, and authoritative, Possible Minds lays out the intellectual landscape of one of the most important topics of our time."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction
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Informational works.
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Essays.
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Informational works.
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Essays.
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| Author |
Brockman, John, 1941- editor
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| LC no. |
2018032888 |
| ISBN |
9780525557999 |
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0525557997 |
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9780525558019 |
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0525558012 |
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