Digital soul
Digital soul: intelligent machines and human values Thomas M. Georges
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2003.
ISBN: 081334266X
DDC: 6.3
LCC: Q335
Edition: (pbk.)
Summary:
"Should the day come when intelligent machines not only make
computations, but also think and experience emotions as humans do,
how will we distinguish the "human" from the "machine"? This
introduction to artificial intelligence - and to its potentially
profound social, moral, and ethical implications - is designed for
readers with little or no technical background. In accessible,
focused, engaging discussions, physicist and science writer Thomas
Georges explores the fundamental issues: What is consciousness? Can
computers be conscious? If machines could think and even feel, would
they then be entitled to "human" rights? Will machines and people
merge into a biomechanical race? Should we worry that
super-intelligent machines might take over the world?".
"Even now we continue to put increasingly sophisticated machines in
control of critical aspects of our lives in ways that may hold
unforeseen consequences for the human race. Digital Soul challenges
all of us, before it's too late, to think carefully and rationally
about the kind of world we will want to live in - with intelligent
machines ever closer by our sides."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
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 Democracy --
21. Rethinking the Covenant Between Science and Society -- 22. What
About God?
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