Something New? AIs and Us by David Orban - Audiobook

Chapter 12 Are you one of us?

Chapter 11 What to do the day after tomorrow? A radical life extension Cryonics To be an onion Mind uploading Kinds of lives When the sun goes out Adaptation, individual and self-perception The Simulation Argument A guarantee: the path will never end Hic sunt leones? The porous map of reality

Chapter 10 What to do tomorrow? Following a path with open eyes together Diversities and tolerance New dignities Emancipation Evolution of new degrees of freedom

Chapter 9 What to do today? Understand, learn, teach Test, make mistakes Open up, adapt Smart alertness Society and artificial intelligence The individual and artificial intelligence

Chapter 8 Human machine coevolution Individual symbiosis Social symbiosis The Internet of Things Intelligence augmentation Talking to computers Emotional computing Ethical best practices Empathy augmentation Let’s make ourselves dispensable! The responsibility of societies The necessity for science and engineering of morality Toward a naturalistic spirituality The future of humans and humanity Nec...

Chapter 7 The Power of Evolution Biological evolution The evolution of knowledge Universal Darwinism Is the universe evolving? Do universes evolve? Does evolution evolve? What did Fermi talk about in the desert? Where is the Great Filter?

Chapter 6 The Technological Singularity Kinds of minds

Chapter 5 Artificial General Intelligence The Turing test becoming moot Unavoidable anthropomorphizing Predictions for AGI Architectures for AGIs AGI hardware Self improvement Intelligence explosion Self-awareness and introspection Open access to your self Slow takeoff Rapid takeoff Scales of intelligence Is super intelligence uncontrollable? AGI getting out of the box Singularities

Chapter 4 Artificial intelligence The Nature of Intelligence The Mechanical Turk Turing tests for humans Chess playing experts Expert systems and restricted artificial intelligence Hopes and disillusions The role of learning

Chapter 3 Exponential change Dynamic systems Meaningful sequences Noisy signals The Human Genome Project’s exponential growth Moore’s Law The power of doublings When is it too late? Ray Kurzweil’s project Connecting S-curves Exponentials everywhere No magic 100%

Chapter 2 The methods of knowledge The fatal error of the alchemists Open science The evolution of science

Chapter 1 Technology created humanity A fiery start The dinosaurs did not have telescopes A non-zero sum game Access to the sacred text of your DNA The proactionary principle Fit or unfit civilizations Unsustainability is unsustainable