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Loading... What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence (edition 2015)by John Brockman (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The Edge (www.edge.org) question for 2015 was 'What do you think about machines that think?'. This is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. It asks for an opinion about a fuzzily defined term (think) about things (machines) that may or may not already be doing it (depending on how you define both words). What is thinking? How is related to mind, consciousness, or intelligence? What is a machine? Are people machines? In this collection of 186 short essays, notable personalities in the arts and sciences expound on such questions. I found some insightful, some informative, and some inane. A leap many took was to assume the question meant machines that think like humans, which is not quite what was asked. Personally, I don't see why anyone would expect machines to think like humans anymore than they would expect dogs or dolphins or aliens from some other planet to. Nor do I understand why anyone would want them to. Humans can think rationally, but they don't do it consistently, and they're not especially skilled at it. Why duplicate human cognitive flaws in silicon? Several of the essayists seem to share my opinion on this. But regardless of your position, there are ideas in these pages that will get you thinking no matter how you define the term. no reviews | add a review
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This is the last book in this series I plan on reading, if the editor can't be bothered to curate the entries then what value is he bringing? One entry is about watching northern lights. The author doesn't even mention AI, she just gushes over how wonderful anticipation is. And huskies. Why is this in the book?! I'm done. ( )