Super-Intelligent Machines

by Hibbard, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780306473883
• ISBN10: 0306473887
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781461507598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Bill Hibbard is a Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator at the University of Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Gotterdammerung	1	(6)
Part I Humans Will Create Super-Intelligent Machines
The Basics of Machine Intelligence	7	(8)
Computers as Tools	15	(12)
Arguments Against the Possibility of Machine Intelligence	27	(14)
The Current State of the Art in Machine Intelligence	41	(38)
Neuroscience	79	(20)
Dawn of the Gods	99	(14)
Part II Super-Intelligent Machines Must Love All Humans
Good God, Bad God	113	(20)
Brain Engineering	133	(12)
Current Public Policy for Information Technology	145	(10)
Public Education and Control	155	(10)
Visions of Machine Intelligence	165	(10)
Endings	175	(10)
Part III Should Humans Become Super-Intelligent Machines?
Current Connections Between Brains and Machines	185	(4)
Humans Minds in Machine Brains	189	(4)
Humans Will Want to Become Super-Intelligent Machines	193	(6)
Super-Intelligent Humans Must Love All Humans	199	(6)
Part IV Conclusion
The Ultimate Engineering Challenge	205	(4)
Inventing God	209	(4)
Messages to the Future	213	(4)
Bibliography	217	(6)
Index	223