This book is an edited collection of chapters based on the papers presented at the conference “Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams” held in Pilsen in November 2012. The aim of the conference was to question deep-rooted ideas of artificial intelligence and cast critical reflection on methods standing at its foundations.
Artificial Dreams epitomize our controversial quest for non-biological intelligence and therefore the contributors of this book tried to fully exploit such a controversy in their respective chapters, which resulted in an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts from engineering, natural sciences and humanities.
While pursuing the Artificial Dreams, it has become clear that it is still more and more difficult to draw a clear divide between human and machine. And therefore this book tries to portrait such an image of what lies beyond artificial intelligence: we can see the disappearing human-machine divide, a very important phenomenon of nowadays technological society, the phenomenon which is often uncritically praised, or hypocritically condemned. And so this phenomenon found its place in the subtitle of the whole volume as well as in the title of the chapter of Kevin Warwick, one of the keynote speakers at “Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams”.
Author(s): Jan Romportl, Eva Zackova, Jozef Kelemen (eds.)
Series: Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics 9
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 219
Tags: Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages 1-7
The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide....Pages 1-10
How We’re Predicting AI – or Failing to....Pages 11-29
Intelligence Explosion Quest for Humankind....Pages 31-43
Cyborg Tales: The Reinvention of the Human in the Information Age....Pages 45-62
Heteronomous Humans and Autonomous Agents: Toward Artificial Relational Intelligence....Pages 63-77
Moral Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence: Moral AI?....Pages 79-95
Emotion, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics....Pages 97-109
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of: AI in Contemporary Science Fiction....Pages 111-120
Why Are We Afraid of Robots? The Role of Projection in the Popular Conception of Robots....Pages 121-131
A Visit on the Uncanny Hill....Pages 133-142
Desire-Based Model of Reasoning....Pages 143-157
A Computational Behavior Model for Life-Like Intelligent Agents....Pages 159-175
From Gobble to Zen: The Quest for Truly Intelligent Software and the Monte Carlo Revolution in Go....Pages 177-186
Answering Curious Questions about Artificial Intelligence....Pages 187-199
Biological and Artificial Machines....Pages 201-210
Naturalness of Artificial Intelligence....Pages 211-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-219
