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This volume represents the combination of two special issues of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the topic of the technological singularity. Could artificial intelligence really out-think us, and what would be the likely repercussions if it could? Leading authors contribute to the debate, which takes the form of a target chapter by philosopher David Chalmers, plus commentaries from the likes of Daniel Dennett, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Ben Goertzel, Frank Tipler, among many others. Chalmers then responds to the commentators to round off the discussion.

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Sciences et techniques

Artificial intelligence

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	23 novembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781845409166
Langue	English

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The Singularity
Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)?
Edited by Uziel Awret with keynote author David Chalmers
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The commentaries in this volume were originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, vols. 19 (1–2) and 19 (7–8). The original target article was published in JCS, vol. 17 (9–10)

About Authors
Igor Aleksander, FREng, is Emeritus Professor and Senior Reserch Investigator at Imperial College. He has researched AI and Neural Systems since the 1970s, published 14 books and is currently working on informational models of mind.
Bryan Appleyard was educated at Bolton School and King’s College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in English. He was Financial News Editor and Deputy Arts Editor at The Times from 1976 to 1984. Subsequently he became a freelance journalist and author. He has been Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards three times and once Interviewer of the Year. Currently he is a special feature writer, commentator, reviewer and columnist for The Sunday Times. He also writes for the New Statesman, Vanity Fair, and Intelligent Life and Prospect. He has also written for, among other publications, The New York Times, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The Tablet, The Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, and The Sun.
Uziel Awret, a previous contributor to JCS with a life long interest in consciousness studies, studied physics in the Technion (the Israeli Technical Institute), biophysics in Georgetown University, and some continental philosophy in George Mason University. He is currently a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences in TrinityDC University in Washington D.C. where he teaches physics. He is also a member of the Inspire Institute and a research associate at Chapman University East where he is involved in theoretical research on the connections between quantum mechanics and biology.
Susan Blackmore is a psychologist and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. She blogs for the Guardian, and often appears on radio and television. The Meme Machine (1999) has been translated into 16 other languages; other books include Conversations on Consciousness (2005), Zen and the Art of Consciousness (2011), and a textbook, Consciousness: An Introduction (2nd ed. 2010).
Nick Bostrom is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, where he directs the Future of Humanity Institute and the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology. His research interests intersect areas within philosophy of science, moral philosophy, practical ethics, and technology policy and futures. He is currently writing a book about machine intelligence.
Selmer Bringsjord is Professor of Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He specializes in leading the engineering of logic-based AI systems, and in the logico-mathematical and philosophical foundations of AI.
Damien Broderick holds a PhD from Deakin University and is a Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His 50 books comprise novels (such as the post-Singularity The White Abacus, Transcension, and Godplayers/K-Machines), critical and theoretical studies (including Reading by Starlight, The Architecture of Babel, Theory and its Discontents), popular science (including The Spike and The Last Mortal Generation), and edited volumes (such as Warriors of the Tao and Skiffy and Mimesis). He does not expect to live long enough to see the singularity, but you never know.
Richard Brown is a philosopher at the City University of New York. In particular he is an Associate Professor in the philosophy program at LaGuardia Community College. He earned his PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in Cognitive Science from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2008. To learn more visit his website: http://onemorebrown.com.
David J. Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU, and also Professor of Philosophy at ANU. He works in the philosophy of mind and related areas of philosophy and cognitive science, with a special interest in consciousness. He was among the founders of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and his publications include The Conscious Mind (OUP 1996), Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (ed., OUP 2002), The Character of Consciousness (OUP 2010), and Constructing the World (OUP 2012).
Joseph Corabi is a philosophy professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous articles in philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion.
Barry Dainton is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Liverpool. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2001) and University of Durham (2008). Recent books include Time and Space (Acumen, 2nd ed. 2010) and The Phenomenal Self (OUP 2008). He has contributed to a number of other books and has published numerous journal articles.
Daniel C. Dennett is the author of Breaking the Spell (Viking 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin 2003), and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster 1995), and most recently (with Matthew Hurley and Reginald Adams) Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind (2011). He is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
Ben Goertzel is CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; co-leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence software project; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series. He has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerousjournalistic articles.
Susan Greenfield CBE (www.susangreenfield.com) is a Senior Research Fellow at the University Dept. of Pharmacology Oxford where she explores novel neural mechanisms in three scenarios: neurodegeneration, the impact of contemporary cyber-culture, and consciousness. As well as writing a range of neuroscience-based books for the non-specialist she also is active in the print and broadcast media, has 30 honorary degrees from British and foreign universities, and a seat in the House of Lords.
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, and chief scientist at Consensus Point. After receiving his PhD in social science from the California Institute of Technology in 1997, Robin was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He spent nine years researching artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics, and hypertext publishing at Lockheed, NASA, and independently. Robin has 70+ publications.
Francis Heylighen is a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he directs the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group, and the newly founded Global Brain Institute. He has authored over 100 scientific publications on a broad variety of subjects and disciplines. The main focus of his research is the emergence of intelligent organization in complex systems.
Marcus Hutter is Professor in the RSCS at the Australian National University in Canberra. He received his PhD in physics from the LMU in Munich and a Habilitation in informatics from the TU Munich. Since 2000, his research at IDSIA and ANU is centred around the information-theoretic foundations of inductive reasoning and reinforcement learning, which has resulted in 100+ publications and several awards. He has a book titled Universal Artificial Intelligence (Springer, EATCS, 2005). He also runs the Human Knowledge Compression Contest (50,000 Euro H-prize).
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, author, and futurist. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has written four national best-selling books. His book The Singularity is Near was a New York Times best seller and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. His next book, How to Create a Mind, The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, was released by Viking in November 2012.
Pamela McCorduck has written extensively about artificial intelligence, including her history of AI, Machines Who Think, which was reissued in a 25th anniversary edition. For the past few years, her interests have turned to the sciences of complexity, and she has published two novels of a planned trilogy that explore the human side of complexity: The Edge of Chaos (2007) and Bounded Rationality (2012). She divides her time between New York