Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans.
Looking closely at the human blueprint, it contains a suite of capacities that are so clumsy they have generally been kept away from AI. It was assumed that robots with features like emotions and intuition, that made mistakes and looked for meaning and purpose, would not work as well as robots without this kind of code. But on considering why all these irrational properties are there, it seems that they emerge from the source code of soul. Because it is actually this ‘junk’ code that makes us human and promotes the kind of reciprocal altruism that keeps humanity alive and thriving.
Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our ‘junk code’ in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code, and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI.
Author(s): Eve Poole
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Boca Raton
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
