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Author Malabou, Catherine, author.

Title Morphing intelligence : from IQ measurement to artificial brains / Catherine Malabou ; translated by Carolyn Shread
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 198 pages)
Series The Wellek Library lectures in critical theory
Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Contents Translator's Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Mètis in the Era of Google Translate -- Intelligence and genetic fate -- The "Blue brain" -- Like a pollock painting -- Conclusion -- Postscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our Narcissism
Summary What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine have become uncertain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Human Brain Project.
SUBJECT Human Brain Project fast
Subject Intellect.
Artificial intelligence.
Neuroinformatics.
Neurosciences.
Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Neurosciences
artificial intelligence.
COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Artificial intelligence
Intellect
Neuroinformatics
Neurosciences
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018036522
ISBN 9780231547239
0231547234
Other Titles Métamorphoses de l'intelligence. English