Super-Intelligent Machines, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002

Super-Intelligent Machines combines neuroscience and computer science to analyze future intelligent machines. It describes how they will mimic the learning structures of human brains to serve billions of people via the network, and the superior level of consciousness this will give them. Whereas human learning is reinforced by self-interests, this book describes the selfless and compassionate values that must drive machine learning in order to protect human society. Technology will change life much more in the twenty-first century than it has in the twentieth, and Super-Intelligent Machines explains how that can be an advantage.

Preface. 1. Götterdämmerung. Part I: Humans Will Create Super-Intelligent Machines. 2. The Basics of Machine Intelligence. 3. Computers as Tools. 4. Arguments Against the Possibility of Machine Intelligence. 5. The Current State of the Art in Machine Intelligence. 6. Neuroscience. 7. Dawn of the Gods. Part II: Super-Intelligent Machines Must Love All Humans. 8. Good God, Bad God. 9. Brain Engineering. 10. Current Public Policy for Information Technology. 11. Public Education and Control. 12. Visions of Machine Intelligence. 13. Endings. Part III: Should Humans Become Super-Intelligent Machines? 14. Current Connections Between Brains and Machines. 15. Human Minds in Machine Brains. 16. Humans Will Want to Become Super-Intelligent Machines. 17. Super-Intelligent Humans Must Love All Humans. Part IV: Conclusion. 18. The Ultimate Engineering Challenge. 19. Inventing God. 20. Messages to the Future. Bibliography. Index.