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What to Think About Machines That Think By John Brockman

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Title:What to Think About Machines That Think
Author:John Brockman
Format:Paperback
Page:576 pages
ISBN:006242565X

As the world becomes ever dominated by technology, John Brockman s latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling Edge Question Series asks than 175 leading scientists, philosophers, and artists What do you think about machines that think The development of artificial intelligence has been a source of fascination and anxiety ever since Alan Turing formalized As the world becomes ever dominated by technology, John Brockman s latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling Edge Question Series asks than 175 leading scientists, philosophers, and artists What do you think about machines that think The development of artificial intelligence has been a source of fascination and anxiety ever since Alan Turing formalized the concept in 1950 Today, Stephen Hawking believes that AI could spell the end of the human race At the very least, its development raises complicated moral issues with powerful real world implications for us and for our machines.In this volume, recording artist Brian Eno proposes that we re already part of an AI global civilization, or what TED curator Chris Anderson elsewhere calls the hive mind And author Pamela McCorduck considers what drives us to pursue AI in the first place.On the existential threat posed by superintelligent machines, Steven Pinker questions the likelihood of a robot uprising Douglas Coupland traces discomfort with human programmed AI to deeper fears about what constitutes humanness Martin Rees predicts the end of organic thinking, while Daniel C Dennett explains why he believes the Singularity might be an urban legend.Provocative, enriching, and accessible, What to Think About Machines That Think may just be a practical guide to the not so distant future


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With a broad career spanning the fields of art, science, books, software and the Internet In 1960 he established the bases for intermedia kinetic environments in art, theatre and commerce, while consulting for clients such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, The Pentagon, The White House In 1973 he formed his own literary and software agency He is founder of the Edge Foundation and edit With a broad career spanning the fields of art, science, books, software and the Internet In 1960 he established the bases for intermedia kinetic environments in art, theatre and commerce, while consulting for clients such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, The Pentagon, The White House In 1973 he formed his own literary and software agency He is founder of the Edge Foundation and editor of Edge, a highly acclaimed website where the most outstanding thinkers, leaders of what he has termed Third Culture , analyse cutting edge science.He is author and editor of several books, including The Third Culture 1995 The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years 2000 The Next Fifty Years 2002 and The New Humanists 2003.He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the Science Times 1997 and the Arts Leisure 1966 , both supplements of The New York Times



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