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How does our brain work?
How to build an AI?
What will happen if we manage to build a true AI?
This book answers all these questions !
The mind and the machine:
Should we fear artificial intelligence?
Recent advances in understanding the brain and in programming intelligent computers show that we are not far away to achieve a true conscious and creative Artificial Intelligence.
But such an AI will not think like a human! It will be much more intelligent and will thinks much faster than us! This opens the door to all expectations and to all fears.
What is happening inside our brains? How does our mind work? What is intelligence ? What is conscience? Will we create someday a true artificial intelligence? How can we design it? What will its capabilities be like, and should we fear it?
This book gives a detailed answer to all these questions.
Accurate but not without humor, intended for a wide audience, this profusely illustrated book clearly raises the question of what will happen before, during and after this unique event, which will be of comparable importance as the invention of language, fire, or of writing: The arrival of AI in the human world.
570 pages, 197 illustrations. A whealth of information!
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Table
Foreword
I. A small tour of the mind
1 The Mind, this unknown
A Little story of mind
Reasoning and logic
Little Introspection
Multi-sensory perceptions
Psychology
Imitation
Human, Animal, Imitation and violence
Thinking
Concepts
Thoughts
Analogies
Language and reading
Roles, analogies and unification
Goals
Interlude
2 Mind and Brain
The evolution of intelligence
The brain
The human visual system
The auditory system
Proprioception and coordination of our movements
Long-term memory
Artificial neural networks and memory
Forgetting
Which associative memory for an AI?
Eventually, what is intelligence?
What is consciousness?
Soul and mechanism
Animal Intelligence
Extra-terrestrial intelligence
3 Learning
The very young child
Lorenz and Geese
Piaget and competences
Chomsky and language
Computer Learning
Learning and forgetting
Tentative overview
II. Recipe to build a mind
4 The society of mind
Agents
Basic agents
The engine
Intermediate agents
Situated agents
How do agents communicate?
The goals and Bayesian reasoning
Desires and impulses
Pleasure and pain
Learning super goals
The sense of self
The narrative thread and interior monologue
5 « Classical » AI
First success, first failures
Some false good ideas
Deep Blue
Eliza
Expert systems
Etaoin Shrdlu
Formal logic
Neural networks
Some truly good AI ideas
Genetic algorithms
AM
Eurisko
CYC
Copycat
Phaeaco
Problem solving
6 True AI (TAI)
A name for a true AI
A question of power?
A question of knowledge?
A question of complexity?
The theory of Alain Cardon
Some clichés about AI
7 Building a True AI
Seed AI
Virtual worlds and self-learning
Overall architecture
Systems, sub-systems and strategies
Sensory modalities
A sensory modality for computer
8 Robots and Humans
Asimov robots
Laws of humanotics
Prospective
The steps in building a true AI
Some possible uses of an AI
Ultra-fast engineering
AI and human work
The AI box
The AI dreams
III. The Singularity
9 What is the Singularity?
The coming of True AI
Advantages of an AI over humans
Beyond Moore’s law
Other paths to Singularity
10 parenthesis :Nanotechnology
What is Nanotechnology?
Building large objects
Possible applications of nanotechnology
When is the baby due?
The problem…
Partial solutions
Against Grey Goo
11 Super Intelligence
What is super intelligence?
The rising of super intelligence
Powers and Genies
Upload
After singularity
Immortality
The duplication of the mind and soul
A nightmare AI
AI and human rights
12 Friendly AI
What friendly means
Understanding hostility
The Golem
The failure of injunctions
AI, safety and security
Designing a friendly AI
Meta morality
13 The race is on
The nanotechnology side
The science side
The computer science side
The philosophical side
The political side
Conclusion
Bibliography
books
websites
570 pages, 197 illustrations. A whealth of information!
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Amazon kindle files can be read on any device: kindle, kobo, PC, Mac, tablets, smartphones...
Also available in French version
Commentaires (2) :
Page : [1]Le 11/04/2018 à 23h03
The next part proves that a conscious AI will not be human-like : it will outperform every human ability, and capacity and, again, this is explained very clearly with lots of interesting examples.
Should we fear it? It depends, say the author, on how this "full AI" will be built. This is an engineering problem, not a philosophical one. We can build either a friendly AI, or an hostile one depending on how we design its "goal system". The Author thinks that question is the most important *political* question of this century and that the general public should be more aware of it. A fascinating book. Thank you !
Le 25/09/2016 à 16h24
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