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Index
Cover
Books by John Brockman
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: On the Promise and Peril of Ai
New Technologies = New Perceptions
“We Must Cease to Kiss the Whip That Lashes Us.”
Mind, Thinking, Intelligence
“the Shtick of the Steins”
The Long Ai Winters
An Ongoing Dynamical Emergent System
The Evolving Ai Narrative
Chapter 1: Wrong, but More Relevant Than Ever
What Wiener Got Right
What Wiener Got Wrong
Technological Overestimation and the Existential Risks of the Singularity
The Arguments for Singularity Skepticism
Whither Wiener
Chapter 2: The Limitations of Opaque Learning Machines
Chapter 3: The Purpose Put into the Machine
Putting Purposes into Machines
1001 Reasons to Pay No Attention
Solutions
Chapter 4: The Third Law
Chapter 5: What Can We Do?
Chapter 6: The Inhuman Mess Our Machines Have Gotten Us Into
Chapter 7: The Unity of Intelligence
I. A Simple Answer to Contentious Questions
II. The Future of Intelligence
Chapter 8: Let’s Aspire to More Than Making Ourselves Obsolete
The Evolving Debate About Ai’s Societal Impact
Why We’re Rushing to Make Ourselves Obsolete, and Why We Avoid Talking About It
What Can We Do?
Outlook
Chapter 9: Dissident Messages
The First Message: The Soviet Occupation
The Second Message: Ai Risk
Evolution’s Fatal Mistake
The Present Situation
Calibrating the Ai-Risk Message
Hope
Chapter 10: Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas
Chapter 11: Beyond Reward and Punishment
Chapter 12: The Artificial Use of Human Beings
Chapter 13: Putting the Human into the Ai Equation
The Coordination Problem: People Are More Than Objects in the Environment
The Value Alignment Problem: People Hold the Key to the Robot’s Reward Function
Chapter 14: Gradient Descent
Life
The Universe
Our Brains
Ai
Chapter 15: “Information” for Wiener, for Shannon, and for Us
Chapter 16: Scaling
Chapter 17: The First Machine Intelligences
Why Wiener Saw What Others Missed
Chapter 18: Will Computers Become Our Overlords?
Chapter 19: The Human Strategy
On Polarization and Inequality
On Extreme Wealth
On Ai and Society
Next-Generation Ai
Chapter 20: Making the Invisible Visible: Art Meets Ai
Artificial Stupidity
Visible/Invisible
Computers, as a Tool for Creativity, Can’t Replace the Artist
Cybernetics/Art
Simulating Worlds
Chapter 21: Ais Versus Four-Year-Olds
Bottom-Up Deep Learning
Top-Down Bayesian Models
Chapter 22: Algorists Dream of Objectivity
Chapter 23: The Rights of Machines
“is Versus Ought”
The Slippery Slopes
Conventional Computers Versus Bio-Electronic Hybrids
Equality
Radically Divergent Rules for Humans Versus Nonhumans and Hybrids
Chapter 24: The Artistic Use of Cybernetic Beings
Chapter 25: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization
Index
About the Author
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