Intelligence Unbound

The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds
Herausgegeben von Blackford, Russell; Broderick, Damien

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists.

Compelling and intellectually sophisticated exploration of the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence and machine minds
Features contributions from an international cast of philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction authors, and more
Offers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interest
Illuminates the nature and ethics of tomorrow's machine minds-and of the convergence of humans and machines-to consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing possibilities
Considers classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest topics debated by scholars
Covers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including proponents and skeptics, pros and cons

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781118736289
• ISBN-10: 1118736281
• Artikelnr.: 41249486

Autorenporträt

Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, literary critic, and author, based at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Evolution and Technology, and his books include Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Damien Broderick is an award-winning Australian science and fiction writer, editor and critical theorist. He has written or edited some 60 books, including The Spike (revised, ed. 2002), the first full-length treatment of the technological Singularity, and Year Million (ed. 2008), about the deep future.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let's
Hope) 1 Damien Broderick Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11 Russell
Blackford 1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and
Strengthen Human Morality 26 James J. Hughes 2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced
Artificial Intelligence 35 Michael Anissimov 3 Who Knows Anything about
Anything about AI? 46 Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh 4 Nine Ways
to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness 61
Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt 5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90 Randal A. Koene 6
Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102 David J. Chalmers 7 Mind Uploading:
A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119 Massimo Pigliucci 8 If You Upload,
Will You Survive? 131 Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider 9 On the Prudential
Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146 Nicholas Agar 10 Uploading and Personal
Identity 161 Mark Walker 11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs.
Non-Invasive Methods 178 Naomi Wellington 12 The Future of Identity:
Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness
193 Kathleen Ann Goonan 13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201 Joe
Strout 14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212 Nicole Olson 15
The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222 Max More 16 Qualia
Surfing 231 Richard Loosemore 17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human
Mind 240 Natasha Vita-More 18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than
the Alternative 248 Iain Thomson and James Bodington 19 The Pinocchio
Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263 Victor Grech 20 Being Nice to
Software Animals and Babies 279 Anders Sandberg 21 What Will It Be Like To
Be an Emulation? 298 Robin Hanson Afterword 310 Linda MacDonald Glenn Index
321

Rezensionen

"As can be seen from my comments for story ideas, this book is also a ripe ground to get your imagination working and if you want to be involved in writing the next generation of SF stories, definitely deserves a read." (SFCrowsnest.org.uk, 1 September 2014)