Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state–of–the–art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists. Compelling and intellectually sophisticated exploration of the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence and machine minds Features contributions from an international cast of philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction authors, and more Offers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interest Illuminates the nature and ethics of tomorrow’s machine minds—and of the convergence of humans and machines—to consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing possibilities Considers classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest topics debated by scholars Covers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including proponents and skeptics, pros and cons INDICE: Notes on Contributors Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let’s Hope) Damien Broderick Introduction II: Bring on the Machines Russell Blackford   1          How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and             Strengthen Human Morality             James J. Hughes 2          Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence             Michael Anissimov 3         Who knows anything about anything about AI?             Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh 4         Nine Ways to Bias Open–Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness            Ben Goertzel, PhD and Joel Pitt 5         Feasible Mind Uploading            Randal A. Koene 6         Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis            David Chalmers 7         Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter–Analysis            Massimo Pigliucci 8         If You Upload, Will You Survive?             Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider 9         ­On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading             Nicholas Agar 10        Uploading and Personal Identity            Mark Walker 11       Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non–Invasive Methods            Naomi Wellington 12       The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications            of Human/Machine Consciousness            Kathleen Ann Goonan 13       Practical Implications of Mind Uploading            Joe Strout 14       The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds             Nicole Olson 15        The Enhanced Carnality of Post–Biological Life             Max More 16       Qualia Surfing            Richard Loosemore 17       Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind             Natasha Vita–More 18        Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative            Iain Thomson and James Bodington 19       The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse             Victor Grech 20       Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies            Anders Sandberg 21       What Will It Be Like To Be An Emulation?             Robin Hanson Afterword Linda MacDonald Glenn Index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-73628-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 04/08/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés