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Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values Hardcover - 2003

by Thomas Georges


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Should the day come when intelligent machines not only make computations but also think and experience emotions as humans do, how will we distinguish the "human" from the "machine"? This introduction to artificial intelligence - and to its potentially profound social, moral, and ethical implications - is designed for readers with little or no technical background. In accessible, focused, engaging discussions, physicist and award-winning science writer Thomas Georges explores the fundamental issues: What is consciousness? Can computers be conscious? If machines could think and even feel, would they then be entitled to "human" rights? Will machines and people merge into a biomechanical race? Should we worry that super-intelligent machines might take over the world? Even now we continue to put increasingly sophisticated machines in control of critical aspects of our lives in ways that may hold unforeseen consequences for the human race. Digital Soul challenges all of us, before it's too late, to think carefully and rationally about the kind of world we will want to live in - with intelligent machines ever closer by our sides.

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Just about everyone has an opinion about the prospects of creating artificial intelligence and artificial life.

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  • Title Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values
  • Author Thomas Georges
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Boulder, CO
  • Date March 18, 2003
  • ISBN 9780813340579 / 0813340578
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.22 x 0.99 in (23.93 x 15.80 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003001374
  • Dewey Decimal Code 006

About the author

Thomas M. Georges is a former research scientist at the National Bureau of Standards, the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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