Description
| Product ID: | 9781032426624 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Robot Souls |
| Subtitle: | Programming in Humanity |
| Authors: | Author: Eve Poole |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind, Religion: general, Society and culture: general, Sociology, Social and cultural anthropology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Robotics, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Artificial intelligence, Human–computer interaction, Religion: general, Society & culture: general, Sociology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Robotics, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Legal aspects of IT, Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book brings the reader up to date with developments in the thinking about consciousness in AI, and examines the implications this has for humans as a species.It concludes that we need to start cultivating our junk code, and that it may now be time to give our robots some soul. Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Looking closely at the human blueprint, it contains a suite of capacities that are so clumsy they have generally been kept away from AI. It was assumed that robots with features like emotions and intuition, that made mistakes and looked for meaning and purpose, would not work as well as robots without this kind of code. But on considering why all these irrational properties are there, it seems that they emerge from the source code of soul. Because it is actually this ‘junk’ code that makes us human and promotes the kind of reciprocal altruism that keeps humanity alive and thriving. Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our ‘junk code’ in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code, and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI. The book author Eve Poole received an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to education and gender equality. |
| Imprint Name: | CRC Press |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-01 |
