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Artificial you : AI and the future of your mind / Susan Schneider.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019Description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691180144 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
  • 0691180148 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.301
LOC classification:
  • Q 335 S359a 2019
Contents:
Introduction: Your Visit to the Center for Mind Design Chapter 1: The Age of AI Chapter 2: The Problem of AI Consciousness Chapter 3: Consciousness Engineering Chapter 4: How to Catch an AI Zombie: Testing for Consciousness in Machines Chapter 5: Could You Merge with AI? Chapter 6: Getting a Mindscan Chapter 7: A Universe of Singularities Chapter 8: Is Your Mind a Software Program? Conclusion: The Afterlife of the Brain Appendix: Transhumanism Acknowledgments Notes References Index
Summary: "Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind? In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms. At the heart of her exploration is a sober-minded discussion of what AI can truly achieve: Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with AI, as tech leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is the mind just a program? Examining these thorny issues, Schneider proposes ways we can test for machine consciousness, questions whether consciousness is an unavoidable byproduct of sophisticated intelligence, and considers the overall dangers of creating machine minds."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-171) and index.

Introduction: Your Visit to the Center for Mind Design
Chapter 1: The Age of AI
Chapter 2: The Problem of AI Consciousness
Chapter 3: Consciousness Engineering
Chapter 4: How to Catch an AI Zombie: Testing for Consciousness in Machines
Chapter 5: Could You Merge with AI?
Chapter 6: Getting a Mindscan
Chapter 7: A Universe of Singularities
Chapter 8: Is Your Mind a Software Program?
Conclusion: The Afterlife of the Brain
Appendix: Transhumanism
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

"Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind? In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms. At the heart of her exploration is a sober-minded discussion of what AI can truly achieve: Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with AI, as tech leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is the mind just a program? Examining these thorny issues, Schneider proposes ways we can test for machine consciousness, questions whether consciousness is an unavoidable byproduct of sophisticated intelligence, and considers the overall dangers of creating machine minds."-- Provided by publisher.

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