Digital Soul : Intelligent Machines and Human Values

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georges, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Local Subjects:

Artificial intelligence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Digital Soul

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Basic Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How should we prepare for the day when machines think and feel as well as ? or better than ? humans do?

Contents:

contents; preface; 1 Artificial Intelligence- That's the Fake Kind, Right?; 2 What Makes Computers So Smart?; 3 What Do You Mean, Smarter than Us?; 4 Machines Who Think; 5 Let the Android Do It; 6 What Is Intelligence?; 7 What Is Consciousness?; 8 Can Computers Have Emotions?; 9 Can Your PC Become Neurotic?; 10 The Moral Mind; 11 Moral Problems with Intelligent Artifacts; 12 The Moral Machine; 13 Global Network to Global Mind; 14 Will Machines Take Over?; 15 Why Not Just Pull the Plug?; 16 Cultures in Collision; 17 Beyond Human Dignity; 18 Extinction or Immortality?; 19 The Enemy Within

20 Electronic Democracy21 Rethinking the Covenant Between Science and Society; 22 What About God?; notes; about the author; index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-13783-6

9786613137838

0-7867-5264-5

OCLC:

741492493