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 ix Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let’s Hope) 1 Damien Broderick Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11 Russell Blackford 1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality 26 James J. Hughes 2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35 Michael Anissimov 3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46 Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh 4 Nine Ways to Bias Open–Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness 61 Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt 5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90 Randal A. Koene 6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102 David J. Chalmers 7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter–Analysis 119 Massimo Pigliucci 8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131 Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider 9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146 Nicholas Agar 10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161 Mark Walker 11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non–Invasive Methods 178 Naomi Wellington 12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193 Kathleen Ann Goonan 13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201 Joe Strout 14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212 Nicole Olson 15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post–Biological Life 222 Max More 16 Qualia Surfing 231 Richard Loosemore 17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240 Natasha Vita–More 18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative 248 Iain Thomson and James Bodington 19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263 Victor Grech 20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279 Anders Sandberg 21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298 Robin Hanson Afterword 310 Linda MacDonald Glenn Index 321

• ISBN: 978-1-118-73641-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés