The Technological Singularity: Managing the Journey

Book Overview

Introduction.- Type of Singularity.- Theories of the future.- A New Kind of Intelligence.- Limits in understanding AI.- The Energy Singularity.- What Could The Singularity Be?.- The Methuselarity.- Nature and Timing of the Singularity.- Transhumanism and Posthumanism.- The Technology of the Singularity.- Embodied and distributed cognition.- Singularity Architectures.- Quantum Computing as a mechanism for human intelligence.- An ambient singularity.- The Singularity - More Than Technology.- Transhuman ethics.- Communication with Super-Intelligence.- The Singularity morality.- The Singularity business.- Leon - Emotional or rational beings?.- Psychoanalysis post singularity.- Would Super-AIs be Conscious? Ethical? Social?.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662540312
• ISBN13: 9783662540312
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"