Introduction II: bring on the machines

Title: Introduction II: bring on the machines
Creator: Blackford, Russell
Relation: Intelligence Unbound: the Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds p. 11-25
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch0b
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: This introductory chapter provides an overview of the content discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. Machine or artificial intelligence (AI), might well have the ability to understand, modify, and improve its own source code, carrying it by great leaps into domains of ability that unaided flesh can never hope to reach. AI uses engineered electronic or photonic neural nets operating a million times faster. Uploading need not imply a world of bloated grubs lying in the dark with their brains wired to spreadsheets and simulated worlds. The initial goal of uploaders would be to emulate and enhance the brain, and that requires rich connections to external reality. The artificial system is not merely simulating but actually emulating or replicating the relevant functioning of a human brain. The book shows enthusiasm about the prospects of machine intelligence and mind uploading, and expresses skepticism or concern.
Subject: artificial intelligence; AI; human brain; machine intelligence; uploading
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066320
Identifier: uon:18079
Identifier: ISBN:9781118736418
Language: eng

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