Deus Ex Machina Sapiens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deus Ex Machina Sapiens write by David Ellis. This book was released on 2011. Deus Ex Machina Sapiens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Watson's win on Jeopardy came as no surprise to those who had read Deus ex Machina sapiens. It was written largely during the 1990s, around the time that another IBM supercomputer--Deep Blue--was trouncing world chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The book has since been updated on a few points of detail but its primary message remains intact: the Machine is rapidly evolving as Man's rival if not replacement for the job of Steward of the Earth. Building upon the work of some of the world's greatest scientists, philosophers, and religious thinkers, and drawing particularly from developments in the computing and cognitive sciences--particularly, the field of artificial intelligence, or AI--the book reveals the evolutionary emergence of a machine that is not just intelligent but also self-conscious, emotional, and free-willed. In the 1980s and '90s you used to hear grandiose claims about AI. Machines would soon surpass humans in intelligence, it was claimed by some. The Japanese government spent a billion dollars on one project to make it happen. Well, it didn't happen, but that didn't stop the development of intelligence in machines. AI research simply went underground, and has ever since been quietly incorporated into the "ordinary" programs we use every day, without fanfare, without hype. There is still no machine that rivals Homo sapiens in overall intelligence, but today there are machines that far exceed human intellectual capacity in specific domains, from games to engineering to art, and the number of domains is growing exponentially big and exponentially fast. The disappearance of AI from front stage was good insofar as it allowed machines to develop in the right way; that is, through an evolutionary process, which is the only way for something of such complexity to develop. But it was bad insofar as we lost sight of the development of the intelligent machine. Deus brings Machina sapiens back to front stage, where it belongs. After describing the evolutionary development of intelligence in machines it goes on to describe the emotional, intellectual, and ethical attributes of what is no less than an emergent new life form. It asks the Big Question that can only be asked if you accept the very possibility of the new life form: Will it be serpent or savior? The question is answered in the book's title, which is intended to mean "God Emerging From the Intelligent Machine." The author confesses to having never studied Latin and to have concocted the title from two known Latin phrases: "Deus ex Machina" and "Homo sapiens." The concoction could be grammatically incorrect. The author would be pleased to be corrected.
When Robots Kill
When Robots Kill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Robots Kill write by Gabriel Hallevy. This book was released on 2013. When Robots Kill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to develop standards for the criminal liability of artificial intelligence technologies
The Machine as Metaphor and Tool
The Machine as Metaphor and Tool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Machine as Metaphor and Tool write by Hermann Haken. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Machine as Metaphor and Tool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chapters in this book centre around one main theme, the concept of the machine and its use as metaphor in a variety of contexts. This concept is deeply rooted in western culture and is frequently used to interpret complex systems in nature and society. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor applied to thinking and the brain has becOIne even more pertinent. The idea of a machine has changed over time. In this book these transformations are made trans parent, various aspects of the machine metaphor are discussed and limitations and pitfalls of the metaphor are elaborated. The chapters are written in a non-technical fashion and are accessible to a large readership of scientists and also laymen interested in the scientific per spectives and logical foundations of the machine concept that has been so influential in western thinking. The idea of the book has its origin in a workshop held at the Sci entific Station in Abisko, Sweden, in May 1990, where several of the present authors participated. The meeting was organized and spon sored by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Re search (FRN). Since 1983, the FRN has actively promoted a series of such annual events at Abisko, all of which have been devoted to the exploration of various aspects of complex systems and their evolution.
Machina Sapiens
Machina Sapiens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Machina Sapiens write by William Skyvington. This book was released on 1977. Machina Sapiens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era
Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era write by Ryan K. Bolger. This book was released on 2020-11-09. Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Techno-Sapiens gathers together leading scholars of technology, theology, and religion in order to explore the ways in which modern technology is neither solely a dehumanizing force in the world nor a mere instrument for evangelizing the world, but rather the very means by which incarnation happens--the media in and through which humans love the (digital) other. The essays explore the question of how technology encourages and/or inhibits the human capacity to love our neighbor through asking the following questions: Who is my (digital) neighbor? How does social media in particular allow us to love our (digital) neighbor? How does one become a (digital) neighbor?
