What Is Life?: Evolution as Computation
暫譯: 生命是什麼？：演化作為計算
Aguera Y. Arcas, Blaise
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2025-03-11
- 售價: $810
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $770
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 170
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262554097
- ISBN-13: 9780262554091
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商品描述
What life is, and how its essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships. In 1944, quantum mechanics pioneer Erwin Schrödinger wrote a slim but influential volume, What Is Life?, posing the primary question that rendered biology so mysterious to a physicist. How can life and all its attendant complexities come to exist in a random universe, governed by simple laws, whose disorder only increases over time? This small book, richly illustrated and written for a general audience, offers a deep and surprising answer, drawing on decades of theory and existing literature as well as recent experiments in artificial life. Beginning with ideas developed by Alan Turing and John von Neumann in the mid-twentieth century, Agüera y Arcas shows how self-reproduction, hence life, is inherently computational. Life evolves spontaneously in environments capable of supporting computation, like our own universe, and grows more complex over time as it enters symbiotic relationships with itself. What Is Life? is also the first part of Agüera y Arcas's larger book What Is Intelligence?, which further develops a computational and symbiotic perspective on intelligence, from simple organisms to brains and societies to AI.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
生命是什麼，以及其本質如何被理解為隨著時間在共生關係中變得越來越複雜的計算。
在1944年，量子力學先驅厄爾溫·薛丁格（Erwin Schrödinger）寫了一本薄而有影響力的書籍，生命是什麼？，提出了使生物學對物理學家來說如此神秘的主要問題。生命及其所有伴隨的複雜性如何能在一個隨機的宇宙中存在，這個宇宙由簡單的法則所支配，其無序隨著時間的推移只會增加？ 這本小書，插圖豐富，為一般讀者所寫，提供了一個深刻而驚人的答案，借鑒了數十年的理論和現有文獻，以及最近在人工生命方面的實驗。從艾倫·圖靈（Alan Turing）和約翰·馮·諾依曼（John von Neumann）在二十世紀中期發展的思想開始，阿圭拉·亞卡斯（Agüera y Arcas）展示了自我複製，因此生命，本質上是計算性的。生命在能夠支持計算的環境中自發演化，例如我們自己的宇宙，並隨著時間的推移在與自身的共生關係中變得越來越複雜。 生命是什麼？也是阿圭拉·亞卡斯更大著作智慧是什麼？的第一部分，該書進一步發展了對智慧的計算和共生視角，從簡單的生物體到大腦和社會，再到人工智慧（AI）。作者簡介
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, an organization dedicated to fundamental AI research. He is the author of Who Are We Now?, and his research has included work on privacy-preserving machine learning, on-device AI, large language models, and human identity.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Blaise Agüera y Arcas 是 Google 的副總裁兼研究員，擔任科技與社會的首席技術官，並創立了「智慧範式」（Paradigms of Intelligence），這是一個專注於基礎人工智慧研究的組織。他是《我們現在是誰？》（Who Are We Now?）的作者，研究領域包括隱私保護的機器學習、裝置端人工智慧、大型語言模型以及人類身份等。
