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This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring the central questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity. In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active research scientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes beyond philosophical discussion to provide a detailed account of the risks that the singularity poses to human society and, perhaps most usefully, the possible actions that society and technologists can take to manage the journey to any singularity in a way that ensures a positive rather than a negative impact on society. The discussions provide perspectives that cover technological, political and business issues. The aim is to bring clarity and rigor to the debate in a way that will inform and stimulate both experts and interested general readers.

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Author:   Victor Callaghan ,  James Miller ,  Roman Yampolskiy ,  Stuart Armstrong
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.219kg
ISBN:  

9783662571743

ISBN 10:   3662571749
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   09 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction (Stuart Armstrong).- PART 1: RISKS OF, AND RESPONSES TO, THE JOURNEY TO THE SINGULARITY.- The Risks (Roman Yampolskiy & Kaj Sotala).- The Responses (Roman Yampolskiy & Kaj Sotala).- PART 2: MANAGING THE SINGULARITY JOURNEY.- How Change Agencies Affect Our Path Towards a Possible Singularity (Ping Zheng, Mohammed Asif Akhmad).- Agent Foundations for Aligning Machine Intelligence with Human Interests: A Technical Research Agenda (Nate Soares and Benya Fallenstein).- Risk Analysis and Risk Management for the Artificial General Intelligence Research and Development Process (Anthony Barrett, Seth Baum).- Diminishing Returns and Recursive Self Improving AI (Roman Yampolskiy, Andrew Majot).- Energy, Complexity, and the Singularity (Kent Peacock).- Computer simulations as a technological singularity in the empirical sciences (Juan Duran).- Can the Singularity be Patented (David Koepsell).- The Emotional Nature of Postcognitive Singularities (Jordi Vallverdu).- A Psychoanalytical Approach to the Singularity: Why We Cannot Do Without Auxiliary Constructions (Graham Clarke).- PART 3: REFLECTIONS ON THE JOURNEY.- Reflections on Vinge’s Singularity Vision (James Miller).-  Singularity Blog Insights (James Miller, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Stuart Armstrong, Scott Siskind, Scott Aaronson.- Appendix: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era (Vernor Vinge).

Reviews

There is a wealth of information here, including hundreds of references to recent research. The editors have done a fine job of collecting and presenting all sides of the AGI issue. The papers are well written, and are all relevant ... . this book should be of interest to anyone wishing to learn about the technological singularity and its implications. (G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, May, 2018)

Author Information

Victor Callaghan is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex where he founded the Robotics and Intelligent Environments research groups, publishing over 300 related articles. He is president of the Association for the Advancement of Intelligent Environments, director the Creative Science Foundation and a founding board member of Sapience, organizations which all study the impact of artificial intelligence on our futures. James D. Miller is Associate Professor of Economics at Smith College.  He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Stanford.  The author of the books Singularity Rising and Game Theory at Work,  he is interested in how increases in human and artificial intelligences will influence the economy. Roman V. Yampolskiy is a Tenured Associate Professor in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books including Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach. Dr. Yampolskiy’s main areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence Safety and Cybersecurity Stuart Armstrong is, an Alexander Tamas research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, works on formal decision theory, general existential risk, the risks and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), how AIs can learn humane values, assessing expertise and predictions, and anthropic (self-locating) probability. His booklet “Smarter than Us: the rise of machine intelligence” lays out some the challenges in this area.

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