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Super-Intelligent Machines

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  • Discusses the implications in humans creating a super machine

  • Defines an intelligent machine now and the potential futuristic model

  • Presents multiple arguments against the possibility of machine intelligence

  • Touches upon hot topics, such as artificial neural networks and genetic programming and their relation to human intelligence

  • Discusses the brain, language and consciousness with regard to programming and algorithms

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Götterdämmerung

    1. Götterdämmerung

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 1-4
  3. Humans will Create Super-Intelligent Machines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. The Basics of Machine Intelligence

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 7-13
    3. Computers as Tools

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 15-25
    4. Neuroscience

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 79-98
    5. Dawn of the Gods

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 99-109
  4. Super-Intelligent Machines must Love All Humans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
    2. Good God, Bad God

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 113-131
    3. Brain Engineering

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 133-144
    4. Public Education and Control

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 155-163
    5. Visions of Machine Intelligence

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 165-174
    6. Endings

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 175-181
  5. Should Humans Become Super-Intelligent Machines?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
    2. Human Minds in Machine Brains

      • Bill Hibbard
      Pages 189-191

About this book

Super-Intelligent Machines combines neuroscience and computer science to analyze future intelligent machines. It describes how they will mimic the learning structures of human brains to serve billions of people via the network, and the superior level of consciousness this will give them. Whereas human learning is reinforced by self-interests, this book describes the selfless and compassionate values that must drive machine learning in order to protect human society. Technology will change life much more in the twenty-first century than it has in the twentieth, and Super-Intelligent Machines explains how that can be an advantage.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, USA

    Bill Hibbard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Super-Intelligent Machines

  • Authors: Bill Hibbard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0759-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47388-3Published: 31 October 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5227-3Published: 20 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0759-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 228

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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