Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

by Russell Blackford (Editor), Damien Broderick (Editor)

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.

Genres: Artificial Intelligence, Nonfiction, Futurism

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.

Reviews

[Carter · Rating 3 out of 5]

For those unfamiliar with AI and whole brain emulation, which may be the only article in this book of short articles, that was for me personally worth reading, there might be items of some interest here. Otherwise, this book creates as many misunderstandings, as it clarifies. John Searle's "Chinese Room" arguments, are peculiar from the standpoint, of developments in deep learning, n-layer backpropagation, and nonlinear optimization. Does a optimized graph of layered generalized linear models "think"? Perhaps the question, is the wrong one; or we do not ourselves know what we mean.

[Alicia Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was disappointed at first, but later articles did shallowy discuss sociological and economical consequences of uploading, even topics like the ethics of stisying mind-uploading. Its too bad that it seems we are still in the speculative stages to the "future" but there is certainly a conversation going.