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Biocomputers : the next generation from Japan /edited by Tsuguchika Kaminuma, Gen Matsumoto ; translated by Norman Cook
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ISBN: 0412357704 9780412357701 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *10 Publisher: London New York Chapman and Hall


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Moral machines: teaching robots right from wrong
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ISBN: 9780199737970 0199737975 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

Pattern recognition, learning, and thought : computer-programmed models of higher mental processes
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ISBN: 0136540953 Year: 1973 Volume: 48 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall


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The technological singularity
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ISBN: 0262527804 0262331829 9780262331821 9780262331838 0262331837 9780262527804 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts [Piscataqay, New Jersey] MIT Press IEEE Xplore

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The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity"-that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both-has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century. Murray Shanahan offers an introduction to the idea of the singularity and considers the ramifications of such a potentially seismic event. Shanahan's aim is not to make predictions but rather to investigate a range of scenarios. Whether we believe that singularity is near or far, likely or impossible, apocalypse or utopia, the very idea raises crucial philosophical and pragmatic questions, forcing us to think seriously about what we want as a species. Shanahan describes technological advances in AI, both biologically inspired and engineered from scratch. Once human-level AI-theoretically possible, but difficult to accomplish-has been achieved, he explains, the transition to superintelligent AI could be very rapid. Shanahan considers what the existence of superintelligent machines could mean for such matters as personhood, responsibility, rights, and identity. Some superhuman AI agents might be created to benefit humankind; some might go rogue. (Is Siri the template, or HAL?) The singularity presents both an existential threat to humanity and an existential opportunity for humanity to transcend its limitations. Shanahan makes it clear that we need to imagine both possibilities if we want to bring about the better outcome.

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