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Beyond AI Creating the Conscience of the Machine

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ISBN-10: 1591025117

ISBN-13: 9781591025115

Edition: 2007

Authors: J. Storrs Hall

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With a 30-yr career in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science, reviews the history of AI, predicting the probable achievements in the near future and provides an intriguing glimpse into the astonishing possibilities and dilemmas on the horizon.
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Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 410
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
The Sin of Frankenstein
Brave New World
Back to the Present
Critiquing Artificial Reason
The Road to Intelligence
Predicting AI
The Most Dangerous Game
Human See, Human Do
Creativity
Cybernetics
The War in the Air
Feedback and Homeostasis
Putting It All Together
The Strange Death of Cybernetics
The Remains of Cybernetics
Estimation and Control Theory
Information Theory
Computational Neuroscience
Neural Networks
Computers
Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy of Mind
What We Lost
Symbolic AI: The Golden Age
The Turing Test
ELIZA
Logic
LISP
Predicting Machines
Computers and Thought
Semantic Information Processing
Semantic Nets
Frames
SHRDLU
AM and EURISKO
Diaspora
Computing Power
Common LISP
Formalist Float
Fuzzy Language
Symbol Grounding
Competence
The New Synthesis
In the Name of Science
The Proper Study
Evolutionary Psychology
Computational Theory of Mind
Massive Modularity
The Fox and the Crow
A Mass of Modules
Renaissance
Beyond Human Ken?
Universal Intelligence
The Case Against Universality
The Argument from Animals
The Argument from Experience
The Argument from Inductive Bias
The Case for Universality
Algorithmic Probability
The Argument from Biological Self-Reproduction
The Argument from Evolution
The Subjective Argument
The Argument from Human Uniqueness
The Argument from the Scientific Community
Conclusions
Implications
Autogeny
The Metaphorical Man
Mind Children
Learning in AI
Robotics
Machine Learning
Explanation-Based Learning
Grasp
Formalist Flat and Autogeny
Where We Stand
Representation and Search
Search
Representation
Representations in AI
Logic and Semantic Networks
Bayesian Inference
Evidence Grids
Bayesian Networks
Limits to Growth
n-Spaces and Hill Climbing
Biased Random Walks
Utility-Guided Search
Universal AI
Fun and Games
Chess
Go
Soccer
Global Thermonuclear War
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Newcomb's Problem
Superrationality
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Design and Learning
Multilevel Design
Evolution-Based Search
Bayesian Credit Assignment
Economics-Based Search
Planning and Programming
Design
A Lattice of Goods
Analogy and Perception
Structure Matching
Top-down Representation
COPYCAT and the FARGitecture
Herding Cats
Lost in Space
Case-Based Reasoning
Associative Processing
Design for a Brain
Methodology
Dimensionality
Modularization
Servo with a Simile
Analogical Quadrature
Autogeny
An Economy of Mind
Language
Abstraction Hierarchies
Active Interpretation
Higher-Level Architecture, with Feedback
Common Sense
The Marketplace of Ideas
Chunking and the Firm
Homunculi in the Middle
And a Star to Steer Her By
Kinds of Minds
Hypohuman AI
Diahuman AI
Parahuman AI
Allohuman AI
Epihuman AI
Hyperhuman AI
When
Why
What
How
Software
Hardware
Who
The Military
Universities
Industry Laboratories
Start-ups and Open Source
Where
When
Business as Usual
Breakthrough
Philosophical Extrapolations
Dualism
The Computational Stance
Free Will
Symbols and Meaning
Machines and Meaning
Consciousness
Sentience
Self-Awareness
Qualia
Attention
The Unity of Experience
Folk Psychology
Emotions
Evolutionary Ethics
What Morals Are
Memetic Ethics
Variation
Classical Ethics
Types of Ethical Theory
The Pursuit of Eudaimonia
Golden Rules
Utilitarianism
Rule-Utilitarianism
The Veil of Ignorance
The Moral Epistemology of the Scottish Enlightenment
Contracts
Heterogeneous Ethics
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
Three Laws: Unsafe?
They Wouldn't Work
They Would Work Too Well
They Would Be Unfair to the Robots
They Won't Be Implemented
Asenian Architecture
Id
Ego
Superego
Closing the Circle
Rational Fools
The Age of Virtuous Machines
Ethical AIs
Hard Takeoff
Moral Mechanisms
The Bad News
The Good News
Invariants
Artificial Moral Agency
Theological Interlude
Hyperhuman Morality
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
Age of Reason
Profiles of the Future
Singularity
Things to Come
The Machines Might Just Take Over
They Might Just Crowd Us Out Instead
Politics Might Squelch the Revolution
The Easy Life Might Spoil Humans
We Might Turn into Weird, Icky Cyborgs
Frankenstein Redux
Notes
Bibliography
Index