Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
暫譯: 可能的心智：二十五種看待人工智慧的方法

Brockman, John

Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

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Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table 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 sixty 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 co-founder 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 bestselling 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.

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科學界的傑出人物約翰·布羅克曼（John Brockman）匯集了二十五位最重要的科學思想家，他們在人工智慧（artificial intelligence）領域思考了大部分職業生涯，進行了一場無與倫比的圓桌討論，探討心智、思考、智慧以及成為人類的意義。

「人工智慧是今天的故事——所有其他故事背後的故事。它同時是第二次降臨和啟示錄：善良的AI與邪惡的AI。」 --約翰·布羅克曼

六十多年前，數學家兼哲學家諾伯特·維納（Norbert Wiener）出版了一本關於機器在社會中地位的書，書中以警告作結：「除非我們提出正確的問題，否則我們永遠無法得到正確的答案……時機已經非常緊迫，善與惡的選擇敲響了我們的門。」

在無監督、自我改進的機器學習取得進展之後，一小部分但影響深遠的思想家社群再次考慮維納的話。在Possible Minds中，約翰·布羅克曼匯集了他們對人工智慧可能帶來的未來的不同看法。

這是布羅克曼與最重要的思考人工智慧的科學思想家們長期深入交流的成果——從艾莉森·戈普尼克（Alison Gopnik）和大衛·多伊奇（David Deutsch）到弗蘭克·威爾切克（Frank Wilczek）和史蒂芬·沃爾夫拉姆（Stephen Wolfram）——Possible Minds是了解人工智慧所帶來的關鍵議題的理想入門書。對立觀點之間的碰撞既有益又令人振奮；其中一些人物，如計算機科學家斯圖爾特·拉塞爾（Stuart Russell）、Skype聯合創始人雅安·塔林（Jaan Tallinn）和物理學家麥克斯·泰格馬克（Max Tegmark），對人工智慧的威脅，包括生存威脅，深感擔憂，而其他人，特別是機器人企業家羅德尼·布魯克斯（Rodney Brooks）、哲學家丹尼爾·丹尼特（Daniel Dennett）和暢銷書作家史蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker），則持有截然不同的看法。認真、探索且權威的Possible Minds勾勒出我們這個時代最重要主題之一的智識景觀。

作者簡介

John Brockman is a cultural impresario whose career has encompassed the avant-garde art world, science, books, software, and the Internet. The founder and publisher of the online salon Edge (www.edge.org), he is the editor of the Edge Question book series, which includes This Idea is Brilliant, Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes. Among his books as author are The Third Culture and By the Late John Brockman. He is the founder of the international literary and software agency Brockman, Inc. and lives in New York City.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

約翰·布羅克曼是一位文化推動者，他的職業生涯涵蓋了前衛藝術界、科學、書籍、軟體和互聯網。他是線上沙龍Edge（www.edge.org）的創辦人和出版人，也是Edge Question書系列的編輯，該系列包括這個想法很棒、知道這個、這個想法必須死、這解釋了一切、這會讓你更聰明等多部作品。他的著作包括第三文化和已故的約翰·布羅克曼。他是國際文學和軟體代理機構Brockman, Inc.的創辦人，現居紐約市。

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