Super-intelligent machines / Bill Hibbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hibbard, Bill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Computers.

Machine learning.

Physical Description:

viii, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2002]

Summary:

Super-Intelligent Machines combines neuroscience and computer science to analyze future intelligent machines. It describes how they will mimic the learning structures of human brains to serve billions of people via the network, and the superior level of consciousness this will give them. Whereas human learning is reinforced by self-interests, this book describes the selfless and compassionate values that must drive machine learning in order to protect human society. Technology will change life much more in the twenty-first century than it has in the twentieth, and Super-Intelligent Machines explains how that can be an advantage.

Contents:

1. Gotterdammerung 1

Part I Humans Will Create Super-Intelligent Machines

2. The Basics of Machine Intelligence 7

3. Computers as Tools 15

4. Arguments Against the Possibility of Machine Intelligence 27

5. The Current State of the Art in Machine Intelligence 41

6. Neuroscience 79

7. Dawn of the Gods 99

Part II Super-Intelligent Machines Must Love All Humans

8. Good God, Bad God 113

9. Brain Engineering 133

10. Current Public Policy for Information Technology 145

11. Public Education and Control 155

12. Visions of Machine Intelligence 165

13. Endings 175

Part III Should Humans Become Super-Intelligent Machines?

14. Current Connections Between Brains and Machines 185

15. Humans Minds in Machine Brains 189

16. Humans Will Want to Become Super-Intelligent Machines 193

17. Super-Intelligent Humans Must Love All Humans 199

18. The Ultimate Engineering Challenge 205

19. Inventing God 209

20. Messages to the Future 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-221) and index.

ISBN:

0306473887

OCLC:

50124453