Bibliograph

Possible minds, twenty-five ways of looking at AI, edited by John Brockman

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Possible minds, twenty-five ways of looking at AI, edited by John Brockman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Possible minds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by John Brockman

Sub title

twenty-five ways of looking at AI

Summary

In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener's words again. In Possible Minds, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI -- from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram -- Possible Minds is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures, such as computer scientist Stuart Russell, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and bestselling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching and authoritative, Possible Minds lays out the intellectual landscape of one of the most important topics of our time

Target audience

adult

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