Bøger af Ben Goertzel

Best of H+ Magazine, Vol. 1 is edited by counterculture legend R.U. Sirius, and brought to you by futurist organization Humanity+. It is our great privilege to live in an era when H+ - the extension of humanity beyond its traditional biological form - is not merely fantasy but a reasonable description of the practical, everyday unfolding of science and technology. H+ Magazine has provided a venue for edgy, creative thinking about H+ technologies and ideas since it was founded in 2008. This volume collects some of the best H+ Magazine articles from the magazine's first few years, when it was edited by legendary futurist R.U. Sirius. Table of Contents Preface by Ben Goertzel Preface by R.U. Sirius The Rise of the Citizen Scientist Why DIY Bio? Re-Engineering the Human Immune System Self Tracking: The Quantified Life is Worth Living From Hackerspace to Your Garage Scrapheap Transhumanism DIY RFID Radically Enhanced Human Body Our Machines/Ourselves: AI/Bots/The Singularity Ray Kurzweil: The H+ Interview Brain on a Chip: A Roundup of Projects Working on Silicon Intelligence The Chinese Singularity Build an Optimal Scientist, Then Retire Here Come the Neurobots: Brain Bots are Developing Personalities - and a Whole Lot More Can "Terminators" Actually Be Our Salvation Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick Isn't It Time for Cinematic Sci-Fi Television? Let a Hundred Futures Bloom The Reluctant Transhumanist Was Michael Jackson a Transhumanist? Gene Genies: BIO Adventures in Synthetic Biology: Interview with Stanford's Drew Endy Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives One Atom at a Time: Nano How Close Are We to Real Nanotechnology? Targeting Cancer Cells with Nanoparticles Engineering an End to Aging Smart Biology to the Rescue I Am Ironman!: HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) Cybernetic Suit My New Sense Organ Sports Enhancement and Life Enhancement: Different Rules Apply Botox Parties, Michael Jackson, and the Disillusioned Transhumanist This is Your Brain on Neurotechnology Optogenetics: The Edge of Neural Control Cognitive Commodities in the Neuro Marketplace Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds? Transhumanism at Play Gamification: Turning Work Into Play The Perils of FDS Fun Deficiency Syndrome The Pursuit of Crappiness

The term Cosmism was introduced by Tsiolokovsky and other Russian Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel's "Cosmist Manifesto" gives it new life and a new twist for the 21st century. Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it, is a practical philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western and Eastern philosophy as well as modern technology and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that makes sense now, and will keep on making sense as advanced technology exerts its transformative impact as the future unfolds. Among the many topics considered are AI, nanotechnology, uploading, immortality, psychedelics, meditation, future social structures, psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity. The Cosmist perspective is shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future possibilities.

Between Ape and Artilect is edited by noted AI researcher Ben Goertzel, and produced by futurist organization Humanity+. During 2010-12, Dr. Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science -- artificial general intelligence, nanotechnology, life extension, neurotechnology, collective intelligence, mind uploading, body modification, neuro-spiritual transformation, and more. These interviews were published online in H+ Magazine, and are here gathered together in a single volume. The resulting series of dialogues treats a variety of social, futurological and scientific topics in a way that is accessible to the educated non-scientist, yet also deep and honest to the subtleties of the topics being discussed. Between Ape and Artilect is a must-read if you want the real views, opinions, ideas, muses and arguments of the people creating our future. Table of Contents Itamar Arel: AGI via Deep Learning Pei Wang: What Do You Mean by "AI"? Joscha Bach: Understanding the Mind Hugo DeGaris: Will There be Cyborgs? DeGaris Interviews Goertzel: Seeking the Sputnik of AGI Linas Vepstas: AGI, Open Source and Our Economic Future Joel Pitt: The Benefits of Open Source for AGI Randal Koene: Substrate-Independent Minds João Pedro de Magalhães: Ending Aging Aubrey De Grey: Aging and AGI David Brin: Sousveillance J. Storrs Hall: Intelligent Nano Factories and Fogs Mohamad Tarifi: AGI and the Emerging Peer-to-Peer Economy Michael Anissimov: The Risks of Artificial Superintelligence Muehlhauser & Goertzel: Rationality, Risk, and the Future of AGI Paul Werbos: Will Humanity Survive? Wendell Wallach: Machine Morality Francis Heylighen: The Emerging Global Brain Steve Omohundro: The Wisdom of the Global Brain and the Future of AGI Alexandra Elbakyan: Beyond the Borg Giulio Prisco: Technological Transcendence Zhou Changle: Zen and the Art of Intelligent Robotics Hugo DeGaris: Is God an Alien Mathematician? Lincoln Cannon: The Most Transhumanist Religion? Natasha Vita-More: Upgrading Humanity Jeffery Martin & Mikey Siegel: Engineering Enlightenment

Ray Kurzweil has projected the date for a Technological Singularity as 2045. AI researcher Ben Goertzel believes it could potentially happen much sooner, if appropriate attention and resources are focused on the right R&D projects. What current technologies are most likely to lead to the rapid advent of powerful Artificial General Intelligence systems? What impact will the advent of such technologies have upon human life? What philosophical, scientific and spiritual ideas should be deployed to explore such questions? How probable are Terminator type outcomes, versus friendlier scenarios where advanced artificial intelligences play a beneficent role to humanity and other sentiences? What should be our top priorities now, looking forward to a radically different AI-centric future? This book gathers together essays that Ben Goertzel wrote during the period 2009-2011, for H+ Magazine and other periodicals, which explore these issues from various directions. Each essay is presented along with a brief personal introduction discussing the context in which the essay was written, and reviewing relevant developments from the period 2012-2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2021, held as a hybrid event in San Francisco, CA, USA, in October 2021.The 36 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers cover topics from foundations of AGI, to AGI approaches and AGI ethics, to the roles of systems biology, goal generation, and learning systems, and so much more.

This work describes the near future technologies and scientific changes that will effect human life in the next 25 years. Artifical intelligence is a major theme of this book as is computing and biotech. The author argues we are in a transitional period in which the major changes of the next quarter century are only barely developed: genome research, human enhancement, computer to computer research, bioinformatics to mention only a few. The author has a qualitative paradigm of what lies ahead and what the AI community can contribute to shaping and creating a world in which both rich, developing and poor nations can benefit. His "posthumanity" posits machine to machine intelligence with potentially positive results for mankind.

The general problem addressed in this book is a large and important one: how to usefully deal with huge storehouses of complex information about real-world situations.

Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise exploring the hypothesis that global computer and communication networks will one day evolve into an autonomous intelligent system, and making specific recommendations as to what engineers and scientists can do today to encourage and shape this evolution.

In my three previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet model.

The work outlines a detailed blueprint for the creation of an Artificial General Intelligence system with capability at the human level and ultimately beyond, according to the Cog Prime AGI design and the Open Cog software architecture.

The work outlines a novel conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding Artificial General Intelligence and based on this framework outlines a practical roadmap for the development of AGI with capability at the human level and ultimately beyond.

My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness,....

This comprehensive book describes Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN), a novel conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference. A broad scope of reasoning types are considered.

My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness,....

0 Psychology versus Complex Systems Science Over the last century, psychology has become much less of an art and much more of a science. After all, one might argue, a scientific psychology cannot be expected to deal with fuzzy philosophical questions that probably have little empirical signifi cance.

Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise exploring the hypothesis that global computer and communication networks will one day evolve into an autonomous intelligent system, and making specific recommendations as to what engineers and scientists can do today to encourage and shape this evolution.

In my three previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet model.