25 ways of Looking at AI

Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI  in The Edge
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Edited by John Brockman  

"Intelligences born and intelligences made have a lot to offer each other. For that beneficial blend to occur, the contextual framing that the voices in this book spell out will be crucial." 
—Stewart Brand

"While the [Possible Minds] authors disagree on the answers, they agree on the major question: what dangers might AI present to humankind? Within that framework, the essays offer a host of novel ideas. . . . Enlightening, entertaining, and exciting reading."—Publishers Weekly

"Pithy essays on artificial intelligence. . . . Readers . . . will not find a better introduction than this book."—Kirkus 

"Brockman, founder of the online salon Edge.org, corrals 25 big brains—ranging from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek to roboticist extraordinaire Rodney Brooks—to opine on this exhilarating, terrifying future."
—Inc. ("10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019")

John Brockman: On the Promise and Peril of AI  • Seth Lloyd:  Wrong, but More Relevant Than Ever • Judea Pearl:  The Limitations of Opaque Learning Machines • Stuart Russell: The Purpose Put Into the Machine • George Dyson: The Third Law • Daniel C. Dennett: What Can We Do? • Rodney Brooks:  The Inhuman Mess Our Machines Have Gotten Us Into • Frank Wilczek:  The Unity of Intelligence • Max Tegmark:  Let’s Aspire to More Than Making Ourselves Obsolete • Jaan Tallinn: Dissident Messages • Steven Pinker: Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas • David Deutsch: Beyond Reward and Punishment • Tom Griffiths: The Artificial Use of Human Beings • Anca Dragan: Putting the Human into the AI Equation • Chris Anderson: Gradient Descent • David Kaiser: “Information” for Wiener, for Shannon, and for Us • Neil Gershenfeld: Scaling • W. Daniel Hillis: The First Machine Intelligences • Venki Ramakrishnan: Will Computers Become Our Overlords? • Alex “Sandy” Pentland: The Human Strategy • Hans Ulrich Obrist: Making the Invisible Visible: Art Meets AI • Alison Gopnik:  AIs versus Four-Year-Olds  • Peter Galison: Algorists Dream of Objectivity • George M. Church: The Rights of Machines • Caroline A. Jones: The Artistic Use of Cybernetic Beings • Stephen Wolfram: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization  ... "