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The idea that human history is approaching a żsingularityżżthat ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or bothżhas moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century. Murray Shanahan offers an introduction to the idea of the singularity and considers the ramifications of such a potentially seismic event. Shanahanżs aim is not to make predictions but rather to investigate a range of scenarios. Whether we believe that singularity is near or far, likely or impossible, apocalypse or utopia, the very idea raises crucial philosophical and pragmatic questions, forcing us to think seriously about what we want as a species.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Electronics & communications engineering Electronics engineering

• Full title: Technological Singularity
• Author: Murray Shanahan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780262527804
• ISBN: 9780262527804
• ID: 09392617
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 244 g
• Dimensions: 179 × 130 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. August 2015

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