Book Review
Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI (ed. John Brockman)
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- Some essays were remarkably crisp though. I particularly enjoyed Tom Griffiths’s. His was about how it’s central to the project of Artificial Intelligence to grapple with human intelligence — and how thinking is computation, in a sense. I also liked Steven Pinker’s essay that brought together the cognitive scientific and social aspects of technology. The concept of a superintelligence may not even make sense, he writes, but even if it does, then human institutions will still matter because of the way a superintelligence will be deployed.