Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Intelligence Is Not Artificial: Why The Singularity Is Not Coming Any Time Soon And Other Meditations On The Post-Human Condition And The Future Of InISBN13:9780976553199ISBN10:0976553198Author:Scaruffi, Piero (Author)Description:(Note That An Updated And Expanded Edition Was Published In 2018: S: Intelligence-Not-Artificial-Expanded-Singularitydp1984101455 ) Writers, Inventors And Entrepreneurs, Impressed By Progress In Several Scientific Fields, Are Debating Whether We May Be Heading For A Singularity In Which Machines With Super-Human Intelligence Will Arise And Multiply In Parallel Enthusiastic Coverage In The Media Has Widely Publicized Machines Performing Sophisticated Tasks, From Beating The World's Chess Champion To Driving A Car, From Recognizing Animals In Videos To Beating Human Experts On Quiz Shows These Stories Have Reignited Interest In The Discipline Of Artificial Intelligence, Whose Goal Is To Create Machines That Are As Intelligent As Humans First Of All, This Book Provides A Reality Check Of Sorts On Simulating Human Intelligence And Achieving Superhuman Intelligence I Show That, In A Society Driven By Media That Desperately Need Sensational News To Make Money And In An Academic World Increasingly Driven By The Desire To Turn Research Into Silicon Valley Start-Ups, Technological Progress In General, And Progress In Computer Science In Particular, Is Often Overrated I Wanted To Dispel Some Notions, And My Version Of The Facts May Sound Controversial Until You Read My Explanations For Example: Non-Human Intelligence Is Already Among Us, And Is Multiplying Rapidly, But It Is Not A Machine For Example: Progress In Artificial Intelligence Has Been Negligible And One Reason Is, Ironically, That Computers Have Become So Much More Powerful For Example: The Program Of Turning Machines Into Humans Is Not Very Successful Yet, But The Program Of Turning Humans Into Machines (Via An Almost Infinite Repertory Of Rules And Regulations) Is Very Successful The New Generations Missed The Debates Of The Previous Decades (The Turing Test, The Ghost In The Machine, The Chinese Room, Etc) And Some Of Us Think That These New Generations, Trained In Hyper-Specialized Disciplines, Don't Have The Knowledge To Understand Them Even If They Were Forced To Read Them Therefore It Is Much Easier For The New A I Practitioners To Impress The New Generations I Have Summarized The Various Philosophical Arguments In Favor Of And Against The Feasibility Of Machine Intelligence In My Book The Nature Of Consciousness And I Won't Repeat Them Here I Will, However, At Least Caution The New Generations That I Grew Up (As Far As Cognitive Science Goes) At A Time When The Term Intelligence Was Not Cool At All: Too Vague, Too Unscientific, Too Abused In Popular Literature To Lend Itself To Scientific Investigation In Fact, The Mother Of All Problems In This Debate Is At The Very Source: Singularity And Superhuman Intelligence Are Non-Scientific Terms Based On Non-Scientific Chatting The Term Intelligence Itself Is Hardly Scientific Ask One Hundred Psychologists And You Will Get One Hundred Different Definitions Ask Philosophers And You Will Get Thick Tomes Written In A Cryptic Language Ask Neurobiologists And They May Simply Ignore You I Also Feel That This Discussion Should Be Complemented With An Important (More Important?) Discussion About The Changes In Human Intelligence Due To The Increased Intelligence Of Machines This Change In Human Intelligence May Have A Stronger Impact On The Future Of Human Civilization Than The Improvements In Machine Intelligence Finally, I Am Intrigued By Another Sociologicalanthropological Aspect Of This Discussion: Humans Seem To Have A Genetic Propensity To Believe In Higher Forms Of Intelligence (Gods, Saints, Ufos, ) And The Myth Of The Singularity Could Simply Be Its Manifestation In Our Post-Religious 21St Century Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:OmniwarePublication Date:2014-12-22Weight:0.92 lbsDimensions:0.65'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:310Language:English
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Book Title: Intelligence Is Not Artificial : Why the Singularity Is Not Coming Any Time Soon and Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence
Item Length: 9in.
Item Height: 0.5in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: Piero Scaruffi
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: General
Publisher: OmniWare
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 10.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
