UID:
edocfu_9959327314202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118736456
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1118736451
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9781118736791
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1118736796
Content:
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 sophisticatedexploration 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.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let's Hope); 1 Machine minds or humans copied into machines?; 2 Emulating the mind; 3 Is my copy me?; 4 Who woke up?; Notes; References; Introduction II: Bring on the Machines; 1 A strange new epoch?; 2 Machines that think?; 3 Into the machine ...?; 4 Personal identity and survival; 5 Contemplating the unimaginable; 6 The future is coming; Notes; References; Chapter 1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality; 1 Introduction; 2 Self-control.
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3 Caring4 Fairness and moral cognition; 5 Mindfulness; 6 Intelligence; 7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence; 1 Explosive improvement; 2 Scenarios of AI emergence; 3 Physical growth; 4 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI?; 1 Introduction; 2 Taxonomy of predictions; 3 (Un)reliable experts; 4 AI timeline predictions; 5 Case studies; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness; 1 Introduction.
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Modes of AGI development2 Is open or closed AGI development safer?; 3 The (unlikely) prospect of government controls on AGI development; 4 Nine ways to bias AGI toward Friendliness; 1 Engineer the capability to acquire integrated ethical knowledge; 2 Provide rich ethical interaction and instruction, respecting develop mental stages; 3 Create stable, hierarchy-dominated goal systems; 4 Ensure that the early stages of recursive self-improvement occur relatively slowly and with rich human involvement; 5 Tightly link AGI with the Global Brain.
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6 Foster deep, consensus-building interactions and commensurability between divergent viewpoints7 Create a mutually supportive community of AGIs; 8 Encourage measured co-advancement of AGI software and AGI ethics theory; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Feasible Mind Uploading; 1 Neural interfaces and neural prostheses; 2 Iterative improvements in four main areas to achieve whole brain emulation; 3 Is a computer too deterministic to house a mind?; 4 A platform for iteration between model and measurement; 5 Conclusions -- uploaded and machine minds; References.
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Chapter 6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis1 Uploading and consciousness; 2 Uploading and personal identity; 3 The argument from nondestructive uploading; 4 The argument from gradual uploading; 5 Where things stand; 6 Uploading after brain preservation; 7 Reconstructive uploading; 8 Upshot; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis; 1 Introduction; 2 What I am going to attempt here; 3 What Chalmers says, redux; 4 Consciousness, computation, and mind uploading; 5 Mind uploading, personal identity, and Kirk's death by transporter.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Intelligence unbound. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 ISBN 9781118736418
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118736302
