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Carregando... Virtually Human: The Promise---and the Peril---of Digital Immortality (edição: 2014)de Martine Rothblatt
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The author provides us with an expansive discourse on the exponential rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into a virtual world of mind-clones and bemans that will compete with humans at every level. She valiantly marshalls her resources from the latest In AI but there are many unanswered questions. Materialistically one can create a robot but how does one crash the threshold of the real world to ensure consciousness or create soul into a given set of algorithms even if they match all my characteristics. Her book is worth reading for the background it covers and its many assumptions and futuristic speculations. ( ) Rothblatt strongly favors the advent, later in the current half-century, of "mindclones", a form of mind uploading by copying as opposed to what I would call uploading by transforming (which she does not mention). Certain that it will happen, she basically just assumes that machine-hosted consciousness is achievable in principle and will become so in practice. Today's beginnings of her envisioned path to it are, to my considerable skepticism and great dismay, privacy-discarding practices (careless use of social media, cloud computing, etc) that massively deposit personal information permanently into cyberspace. She mightily tries to finesse the apparent inadequacy of copying compared to transforming by arguing that flesh-person and mindclone would constitute a tightly unified (albeit two-platform) identity, in such a way that the indefinitely long existence of the mindclone would mean that immortality has been realized even though the flesh-person dies at some point. Much of the book deals with the various interesting implications that mindclones and society would have for each other. Apart from the annoying inclusion of a religion chapter, an important book to read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts that are derived from multimedia data in a Mindfile created by the real Bina. If you're active on Twitter or Facebook, share photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you're already on your way to creating a Mindfile--a digital database of your thoughts, memories, feelings, and opinions that is essentially a back-up copy of your mind. Soon, this Mindfile can be made conscious with special software--Mindware--that mimics the way human brains organize information, create emotions and achieve self-awareness. This may sound like science-fiction, but the nascent technology already exists. Thousands of software engineers across the globe are working to create cyberconsciousness based on human consciousness and the Obama administration recently announced plans to invest in a decade-long Brain Activity Map project. Virtually Human is the only book to examine the ethical issues relating to cyberconsciousness and Rothblatt, with a Ph.D. in medical ethics, is uniquely qualified to lead the dialogue"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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