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What to Think About Machines That Think

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STEVEN PINKER?consideres the internal metal life of robots *?FRANK TIPLER?explains how artificial intelligence (AI) will save humanity and colonize space *?MARTIN REES?explores why humans are merely an evolutionary stage on the path to a machine-dominated world *?NICHOLAS CARR?examines the challenges of maintaining control over machines *?DANIEL C. DENNETT?identifies the true danger of the coming technological "singularity" * Nobel Prize winner?FRANK WILCZEK?asserts that all intelligence is machine intelligence * musician?BRIAN ENO?suggests that human society remains our most powerful supercomputer *?GEORGE DYSON?argues that genuine creative thinking will always be analog, not digital *?ALISON GOPNIK?asks whether machines will ever be as smart as a three-year-old *?RICHARD THALERthinks human stupidity will always impede artifical intelligence *?Wired?founder?KEVIN KELLYcalls AIs an "alien intelligence" * plus contributions from Nobel Prize winner?JOHN C. MATHER, MATT RIDLEY, FREEMAN DYSON, DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, HELEN FISHER, SAM HARRIS, GEORGE CHURCH, HANS ULRICH OBRIST, ESTHER DYSON, NICK BOSTROM, and others.

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