The Digital Ape: How To Live (In Peace) With Smart Machines

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The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control–in our private lives, in employment, in politics–and make the best of the wonderful opportunities, will determine our collective future well-being. Chapter by chapter, The Digital Ape outline how our choices and the use and adaptation of the tools we've created can lead to opportunities for the environment (both built and natural), health, and our security. Shadbolt and Hampson are uniquely well-suited to draw on historical precedent and technical know-how to offer a vision of the future that is exciting, rather than nerve-wracking, to contemplate. Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Priase page......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Chapter 1 - Biology and technology......Page 8 Chapter 2 - Our hyper-complex habitat......Page 29 Chapter 3 - The digital ape emerges......Page 83 Chapter 4 - Social machines......Page 110 Chapter 5 - Artificial and natural intelligence......Page 134 Chapter 6 - New companions......Page 183 Chapter 7 - Big beasts......Page 219 Chapter 8 - The challenge of data......Page 261 Chapter 9 - Augmented wisdom?......Page 300 Afterword......Page 324 Chapter References......Page 328 Bibliography......Page 348 Index......Page 354