Author Description

This Book Brings The Reader Up To Date With Developments In The Thinking About Consciousness In Ai, And Examines The Implications This Has For Humans As A Species. It Concludes That We Need To Start Cultivating Our Junk Code, And That It May Now Be Time To Give Our Robots Some Soul-- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 What Is Ai? -- Is Ai Conscious? -- Robots -- Inventing Ai -- Deep Learning -- Reinforcement Learning -- Bayesian Ai -- The Turing Test -- Notes -- Chapter 2 How Should We Relate To Ai? -- How Should We Treat Ai? -- Regulation -- Legal Status -- Audit -- Asimov 2.0 -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Will Ai Replace Us? -- Our Obsolescence Problem -- The 12 Dooms -- Distinctiveness -- Materialism -- Free Will And The Rule Of Law -- Notes -- Chapter 4 What Is Consciousness? -- Mind -- Consciousness -- Qualia -- Notes -- Chapter 5 How Do We Know? -- How We Know Things -- Thinking Styles -- Types Of Intelligence -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Soul -- History Of The Soul -- Mapping Soul To Consciousness -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Junk Code -- Junk Code? -- Emotions -- Mistakes -- Storytelling -- Sixth Sense -- Uncertainty -- Free Will -- Meaning -- Community -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Cultivating Soul -- Cultivating Junk Code -- Emotions -- Mistakes -- Storytelling -- Sixth Sense -- Uncertainty -- Free Will -- Meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Programming In Humanity -- Why Bother? -- Parenting -- Gender -- Coding Soul? -- Emotions -- Mistakes -- Storytelling -- Sixth Sense -- Uncertainty -- Free Will -- Meaning -- Robot Manifesto -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Eucatastrophe -- Changing Our Minds -- Happily Ever After? -- Notes -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index. Eve Poole. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.