Artificial Intelligence Versus Natural Intelligence

by Roger Penrose, Emanuele Severino, Fabio Scardigli (Editor)

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness. Additional insightful essays by Mauro D'Ariano, Federico Faggin, Ines Testoni, Giuseppe Vitiello and an introduction of Fabio Scardigli complete the book and illuminate different aspects of the debate. Although from completely different points of view, all the authors seem to converge on the idea that it is almost impossible to have real "intelligence" without a form of "consciousness". In fact, consciousness, often conceived as an enigmatic "mirror" of reality (but is it really a mirror?), is a phenomenon under intense investigation by science and technology, particularly in recent decades. Where does this phenomenon originate from (in humans, and perhaps also in animals)? Is it reproducible on some "device"? Do we have a theory of consciousness today? Will we arrive to build thinking or conscious machines, as machine learning, or cognitive computing, seem to promise? These questions and other related issues are discussed in the pages of this work, which provides stimulating reading to both specialists and general readers.
The Chapter "Hard Problem and Free An Information-Theoretical Approach" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Genres: Science, Philosophy

200 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2023

About the author

Sir Roger Penrose is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London.
Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".

Reviews

[Vasil Dakov · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Изкуствен срещу естествен интелект" е интересна, и в същото време изключително сложна книга, тъй като засяга теми като физика на кондензираната материя (виж кондензацията на Бозе-Айнщайн), квантовата механика, квантовата теория на полето и т.н., в съвременните теории за функционирането на мозъка (например Дисипативен квантов модел на мозъка).

Книгата е съставена от доклади, изнесени по време на конференцията "Изкуствен срещу естествен интелект" в Милано през 2018 г., както и транскрипцията на един много интересен дебат между Роджър Пенроуз и Емануеле Северино за изкуствения и естествения интелект.

Засегнати са темите за изкуствения интелект с тясно предназначение (слаб), ИИ с общо предназначение (силен) и супер ИИ (свръхинтелект).