The Mind and the Machine: Should we fear artificial intelligence?

Recent advances in understanding the brain and in programming intelligent computers show that we are not far away to achieve a true conscious and creative Artificial Intelligence. But such an AI will not think like a human! It will be much more intelligent and will thinks much faster than us! This opens the door to all expectations and to all fears. What is happening inside our brains? How does our mind work? What is intelligence ? What is conscience? Will we create someday a true artificial intelligence? How can we design it? What will its capabilities be like, and should we fear it? This book gives a detailed answer to all these questions. Accurate but not without humor, this profusely illustrated book clearly raises the question of what will happen before, during and after this unique event, which will be of comparable importance as the invention of language, fire, or of writing: The arrival of AI in the human world.

Table of Contents

Part 1 A small tour of the mind
Chapter 1 The Mind, this unknown
Chapter 2 Mind and Brain
Chapter 3 Learning

Part 2 Recipe to build a mind
Chapter 4 The society of mind
Chapter 5 « Classical » AI
Chapter 6 True AI (TAI)
Chapter 7 Building a True AI
Chapter 8 Robots and Humans

Part 3 The Singularity
Chapter 9 What is the Singularity?
Chapter 10 parenthesis: Nanotechnology
Chapter 11 Super Intelligence
Chapter 12 Friendly AI
Chapter 13 The race is on