Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind Audiobook (Free)

A sober-minded philosophical exploration of what AI can and cannot achieve

Humans may possibly not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer: the globe champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid speed of improvement in AI, many predict that it might advance to human-level cleverness next many decades. Following that, it could quickly outpace human being intelligence. What do these developments imply for the future of your brain?

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says about Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind that it is unavoidable that AI will take intelligence in brand-new directions, but urges that it’s up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, aswell as outward, potentially creating machine thoughts, it is very important to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will end up being using ‘equipment’ they don’t learn how to make use of: the personal, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and mind enhancement technology, causing the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms.

In the centre of her exploration is a sober-minded dialogue of what AI can truly achieve: Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with AI, as technology market leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is the brain just a system? Evaluating these thorny issues, Schneider proposes ways we can check for machine awareness, questions whether awareness is an unavoidable byproduct of advanced intelligence, and considers the entire dangers of fabricating machine minds.