
Possible Minds
Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
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Narrated by:
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Kathleen McInerney
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Will Damron
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Jason Culp
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Rob Shapiro
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Vikas Adam
Science-world luminary John Brockman assembles 25 of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field of artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled roundtable examination about mind, thinking, intelligence, and what it means to be human.
"Artificial intelligence is today's story - the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time: Good AI versus evil AI." (John Brockman)
More than 60 years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ended with a warning: "We shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions.... The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door." In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener's words again. In Possible Minds, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us.
The fruit of the long history of Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI - from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram - Possible Minds is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures, such as computer scientist Stuart Russell, Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and best-selling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching, and authoritative, Possible Minds lays out the intellectual landscape of one of the most important topics of our time.
Read by Jason Culp, Rob Shapiro, Vikas Adam, Will Damron, and Kathleen McInerney.
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Critic reviews
“Pithy essays on artificial intelligence.... Readers...will not find a better introduction than this book.” (Kirkus)
“While the [Possible Minds] authors disagree on the answers, they agree on the major question: what dangers might AI present to humankind? Within that framework, the essays offer a host of novel ideas.... Enlightening, entertaining, and exciting reading.” (Publishers Weekly)
“A fascinating map of AI’s likely future and an overview of the difficult choices that will shape it.... A sense of respect for the human mind and humility about its limitations runs through the essays in Possible Minds.” (Foreign Affairs)
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Phenomenal and important for AI Researchers
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A generous number of experts from different fields, ensure that you (the listener) will get an interesting point of view no matter your background.
You will no doubt finish this book with a lot more nuanced understanding of this topic. This book will allow you to hold your own in conversations about a topic that has definitely become the talk of the town.
The negative point is definitely on the narration: the book has different narrators, but too many of them had monotonous and boring performances.
Timely and multi-faceted
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one of the best science anthologies
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An interesting take on AI
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Glimpsing into many possible futures
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One of the great books about AI!
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Wonderful insights from ingenious minds
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The book is a little repetitive and a little unfocused.
Half of these authors are completely wrong
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Having said that, people with other interests will no doubt really enjoy the articles I did not and visa versa.
Mixed bag
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Fantastic Mosaic of Insights from Great Thinkers
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