Digital Soul

Intelligent Machines and Human Values

By: Thomas Georges

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Paperback | 22 September 2004 | Edition Number 1

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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 award-winning 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.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Sociology & Anthropology Society & Culture Human-Computer Interaction Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy Information Technology General Issue

Preface
Artificial Intelligence - That's the Fake Kind, Right?	p. 1
What Makes Computers So Smart?	p. 9
What Do You Mean, Smarter than Us?	p. 19
Machines Who Think	p. 29
Let the Android Do It	p. 47
What Is Intelligence?	p. 57
What Is Consciousness?	p. 75
Can Computers Have Emotions?	p. 99
Can Your PC Become Neurotic?	p. 115
The Moral Mind	p. 123
Moral Problems with Intelligent Artifacts	p. 135
The Moral Machine	p. 151
Global Network to Global Mind	p. 165
Will Machines Take Over?	p. 173
Why Not Just Pull the Plug?	p. 183
Cultures in Collision	p. 189
Beyond Human Dignity	p. 197
Extinction or Immortality?	p. 209
The Enemy Within	p. 217
Electronic Democracy	p. 227
Rethinking the Covenant Between Science and Society	p. 235
What About God?	p. 257
Notes	p. 271
About the Author	p. 277
Index	p. 279
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