Digital Minds

Author : Arlindo Oliveira
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262535238
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digital Mind written by Arlindo Oliveira and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds—intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain. What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices. The power of the human brain is, so far, unequaled by any existing machine or known living being. Over eons of evolution, the brain has enabled us to develop tools and technology to make our lives easier. Our brains have even allowed us to develop computers that are almost as powerful as the human brain itself. In this book, Arlindo Oliveira describes how advances in science and technology could enable us to create digital minds. Exponential growth is a pattern built deep into the scheme of life, but technological change now promises to outstrip even evolutionary change. Oliveira describes technological and scientific advances that range from the discovery of laws that control the behavior of the electromagnetic fields to the development of computers. He calls natural selection the ultimate algorithm, discusses genetics and the evolution of the central nervous system, and describes the role that computer imaging has played in understanding and modeling the brain. Having considered the behavior of the unique system that creates a mind, he turns to an unavoidable question: Is the human brain the only system that can host a mind? If digital minds come into existence—and, Oliveira says, it is difficult to argue that they will not—what are the social, legal, and ethical implications? Will digital minds be our partners, or our rivals?

Author : WSI
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460282175
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Minds (2) written by WSI and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The progression of the Internet hasn’t slowed down one bit; in fact, it’s only just begun. And with capabilities like visitor tracking, geo-targeting and personalized marketing, the business competition on the digital playing field has become more aggressive than ever. The advancements are rapid; adaptation is vital. And yet, business owners are either too tentative to dive in or want to get started but just don’t know where to begin. In the 2nd edition of WSI’s Digital Minds, we provide a map (literally!) that’s designed to help professionals navigate through the complexities of the digital marketing realm. Fourteen of WSI’s thought-leaders explore how online strategies like web design, marketing automation, eCommerce, SEO, reputation management, email marketing and more have been shaped by online consumers and their mobile device du jour! By evolving alongside the growing trends, your brand will be equipped to leave the competition far behind.

Author : Richard Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884582
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Minds written by Richard Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is for anyone who’s curious about rethinking their thinking or unleashing the extraordinary potential of the human mind.

Author : Kristian Bankov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030925552
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digital Mind written by Kristian Bankov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the core features of digital culture, examined by means of semiotic models and theories. It positions commercial and market principles in the center of the digital semiosphere, avoiding the need to force the new cultural reality into the established textualist or pragmatist paradigms. The theoretic insights and case studies presented here argue for new semiotic models of inquiry that include working with big data, user experience and nethnography, along with conventional approaches. The book develops a new concept of identity in the digital age, analyzing the digital flows of recognition and value, which led to the tremendous success of Social Media and the Web 2.0 era. Self-expression, entertainment and consumerism are seen as the major drivers of identity formation in the post-truth era, where the self can no longer be considered independently of a given person’s communication devices, where a substantial part of it is stored and actualized. It will be of interest to semioticians and researchers working on digital culture.

Author : Roman V. Yampolskiy
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039218549
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Superintelligence written by Roman V. Yampolskiy and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention in the AI safety community has increasingly started to include strategic considerations of coordination between relevant actors in the field of AI and AI safety, in addition to the steadily growing work on the technical considerations of building safe AI systems. This shift has several reasons: Multiplier effects, pragmatism, and urgency. Given the benefits of coordination between those working towards safe superintelligence, this book surveys promising research in this emerging field regarding AI safety. On a meta-level, the hope is that this book can serve as a map to inform those working in the field of AI coordination about other promising efforts. While this book focuses on AI safety coordination, coordination is important to most other known existential risks (e.g., biotechnology risks), and future, human-made existential risks. Thus, while most coordination strategies in this book are specific to superintelligence, we hope that some insights yield “collateral benefits” for the reduction of other existential risks, by creating an overall civilizational framework that increases robustness, resiliency, and antifragility.

Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
ISBN 13 : 9789264697553
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Minds in the Digital Age written by Oecd and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894072
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Moral Status written by Steve Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common-sense morality implicitly assumes that reasonably clear distinctions can be drawn between the full moral status that is usually attributed to ordinary adult humans, the partial moral status attributed to non-human animals, and the absence of moral status, which is usually ascribed to machines and other artifacts. These implicit assumptions have long been challenged, and are now coming under further scrutiny as there are beings we have recently become able to create, as well as beings that we may soon be able to create, which blur the distinctions between human, non-human animal, and non-biological beings. These beings include non-human chimeras, cyborgs, human brain organoids, post-humans, and human minds that have been uploaded into computers and onto the internet and artificial intelligence. It is far from clear what moral status we should attribute to any of these beings. There are a number of ways we could respond to the new challenges these technological developments raise: we might revise our ordinary assumptions about what is needed for a being to possess full moral status, or reject the assumption that there is a sharp distinction between full and partial moral status. This volume explores such responses, and provides a forum for philosophical reflection about ordinary presuppositions and intuitions about moral status.

Author : Adriaan van der Weel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719085550
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Our Textual Minds written by Adriaan van der Weel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text has always been the chief vehicle for the inscription and dissemination of knowledge and culture. As more and more of our textual communication moves into the digital realm we have reached a crucial moment in the history of textual transmission. In many respects digital text looks deceptively like print. But beneath the surface of the screen, digital textuality obeys very different rules than printed text. The digital textual universe offers a wealth of new and exciting possibilities - but it also sets new rules for the writer’s and reader’s engagement with text. Changing our textual minds analyses the continuities and discontinuities in textual transmission as we move from a print paradigm into an increasingly digital world. It conceptualizes the epochal transition from analogue to digital both in factual terms and in terms of its social significance. Centuries of reading and writing practice have made us Homo typographicus. Our entire way of disseminating knowledge and culture is firmly based on print culture. The need to come to grips with the shift to digital textuality in the early twenty-first century will literally change our minds.

Author : Dan Hendrycks
Publisher : Dan Hendrycks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics and Society written by Dan Hendrycks and published by Dan Hendrycks. This book was released on with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen swift progress in AI research. Today’s state of the art systems dramatically outperform humans in narrow areas such as understanding how proteins fold or playing chess and Go. They are closing in on expert performance in other areas: for example, they achieve marks that outperform the average doctor and lawyer in professional exams and perform similarly to the average software engineer on some coding challenges. Advances in AI could transform society for the better, for example by accelerating scientific innovation. However, the rapid development of AI systems' capabilities has drawn increased attention to the risks that advanced AI systems could pose to society in the near future, whether via accidents, misuse by bad actors, or loss of control. In this book, Dan Hendrycks, Director of the Center for AI Safety, provides a comprehensive introduction to how current AI systems work, why we might be concerned about potential catastrophic risks from AI, and how society can manage and mitigate these risks.

Author : S. Matthew Liao
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190905034
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics of Artificial Intelligence written by S. Matthew Liao and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should a self-driving car prioritize the lives of the passengers over the lives of pedestrians? Should we as a society develop autonomous weapon systems that are capable of identifying and attacking a target without human intervention? What happens when AIs become smarter and more capable than us? Could they have greater than human moral status? Can we prevent superintelligent AIs from harming us or causing our extinction? At a critical time in this fast-moving debate, thirty leading academics and researchers at the forefront of AI technology development come together to explore these existential questions, including Aaron James (UC Irvine), Allan Dafoe (Oxford), Andrea Loreggia (Padova), Andrew Critch (UC Berkeley), Azim Shariff (Univ. .