The Technological Singularity Managing the Journey

The Technological Singularity Managing the Journey / edited by Victor Callaghan, James Miller, Roman Yampolskiy, Stuart Armstrong.

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 pro...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Callaghan, Victor (Editor), Miller, James (Editor), Yampolskiy, Roman (Editor), Armstrong, Stuart (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:The Frontiers Collection,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Artificial intelligence.
Neurosciences.
Computers and civilization.
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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).

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