February 20, 2015
0 Comments
Ebooks
Download PDF , by Amir Husain
If confused on the best ways to get the book, you could not should obtain confused anymore. This web site is served for you to help every little thing to find guide. Since we have finished publications from globe authors from several countries, you requirement to get the book will be so easy right here. When this , By Amir Husain tends to be the book that you require so much, you can locate it in the link download. So, it's really easy after that exactly how you get this book without investing often times to look and locate, trial and error in guide store.
, by Amir Husain
Download PDF , by Amir Husain
Need a help to locate the brand-new launched book? Don't bother! Do not believe so hard since we are always in to assist you. Whoever you are, to find the book, from numerous countries, is now easy. Right here, we have the whole lots collections of various types as well as genres of guides. The books are noted in soft file systems and you can locate the link for each and every publication to download and install.
Seeing an internet site that is very finished as in this place is rare. So, it's your luck to find us. And pertaining to the , By Amir Husain, we provide you this book in soft file. So, you will not should really feel difficult to bring the published book when intending to review it every time. If you really feel bemused regarding ways to get it, you could conserve the documents in your gizmo and also other tool. So, when you open up the gadget, you can be advised concerning guide inside.
This is some of the benefits to take when being the participant as well as get the book , By Amir Husain here. Still ask just what's different of the other site? We give the hundreds titles that are developed by suggested writers as well as publishers, worldwide. The connect to purchase and also download and install , By Amir Husain is also extremely simple. You might not discover the complicated site that order to do even more. So, the method for you to obtain this , By Amir Husain will be so very easy, will not you?
To obtain , By Amir Husain, no complex system as well as no hard working to get this publication are presented. Link your computer, laptop, or gizmo with the web. Now, you can click the link and also get download and install with the terms that remain in the web link. After getting it and conserving the soft data of , By Amir Husain, you can begin and take care of where when you will review it. This is an extremely outstanding task to be routine and a leisure activity.
Product details
File Size: 1522 KB
Print Length: 225 pages
Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (November 21, 2017)
Publication Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
ASIN: B071YCS3WX
Text-to-Speech:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $ttsPopover = $('#ttsPop');
popover.create($ttsPopover, {
"closeButton": "false",
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"popoverLabel": "Text-to-Speech Popover",
"closeButtonLabel": "Text-to-Speech Close Popover",
"content": '
});
});
X-Ray:
Not Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $xrayPopover = $('#xrayPop_55A6CCF05BC811E993D7D02E3003B248');
popover.create($xrayPopover, {
"closeButton": "false",
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"popoverLabel": "X-Ray Popover ",
"closeButtonLabel": "X-Ray Close Popover",
"content": '
});
});
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Screen Reader:
Supported
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $screenReaderPopover = $('#screenReaderPopover');
popover.create($screenReaderPopover, {
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "500",
"content": '
"popoverLabel": "The text of this e-book can be read by popular screen readers. Descriptive text for images (known as “ALT textâ€) can be read using the Kindle for PC app if the publisher has included it. If this e-book contains other types of non-text content (for example, some charts and math equations), that content will not currently be read by screen readers.",
"closeButtonLabel": "Screen Reader Close Popover"
});
});
Enhanced Typesetting:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $typesettingPopover = $('#typesettingPopover');
popover.create($typesettingPopover, {
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"content": '
"popoverLabel": "Enhanced Typesetting Popover",
"closeButtonLabel": "Enhanced Typesetting Close Popover"
});
});
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#180,320 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
The Sentient Machine offers a lively overview of current innovations in artificial intelligence, but disappoints when he actually gets to the topic of sentience. He explains two different types of artificial intelligence, Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI or machine sentience). ANI devices can learn on their own but do not have sentience. We will have achieved AGI when a device has it. ANI devices are all around us, from self-driving cars, to the Internet of Things, to “Mind Hacking†such as in social media advertising. The main part of this book and the part addressed by most reviewers addresses only ANI. AGI “explodes into existence†when an “I†emerges with a sense of self and an ability to set its own, grander goals. He tells us that “[e]ven leaders in the artificial intelligence community have a hard time conceiving what this Big Bang might look like and what it could bring.†This, I think, needs more attention. My smart phone is not a bit closer to sentience than the pocket calculator I had in high school fifty years ago, regardless of how many apps I download. Self is not achieved by increments; it’s a different sort of thing, a thing that even neuroscientists have difficulty defining. The Sentient Machine does not explore this problem. Hussain romps through the current state of non-sentient ANI. While he presents some frightening applications, such as AI weapons and mind hacking, he is pervasively optimistic about their promise and our ability to handle them. And with AI weapons systems, for example, hey, others are going to develop them, so we must as well. He may be right, but if we’re going to have weapons that act independently, shouldn’t there be a public conversation about this? In Part Three, Hussain turns from the ANI we see around us to a future with AGI. The fears about AGI are first, that it might make us obsolete, and second that it might kill us. ANI is already making us obsolete. 38% of US jobs as of 2017 will be automated by 2030. Against the prospect of massive future unemployment, he suggests that we separate our identity from our livelihood, since the need (opportunity?) to work for a living will disappear. If we are not what we do, who are we? He sets out in two pages (!) to explain the meaning of life. It must, he asserts, lie in that which is uniquely human. We find values like love, charity and loyalty in other species. “Are even these attributes worth preserving at all costs? I’m not sure.†He concludes (with little attention to competing theories) that “the essence of our fundamental purpose is to gain knowledge.†AGI, in his view, can free us from the need to earn a living to focus on gaining knowledge. This is a cheery conclusion from someone in the information business. In this view, knowledge is an inherent good, rather than being inherently neutral, either good or evil depending on its application. His focus on what is uniquely human sets him on the gnostic path of salvation through knowledge. However, what if our most precious trait is widely shared among living things and has its origins deep in the shadows of our evolutionary past, such as our ability to care for one another? If our starting point is cultivating the inherent dignity and worth of each individual, won’t our exploration lead us to a very different goal? Additionally, he acknowledges that currently half the world’s wealth is in the hands of eight individuals. He imagines that AGI might create a world where the masses will live in dignified leisure in the pursuit of knowledge. However, with technological advances, we already have the ability to assure that no child in the world goes to bed hungry. We could do this, but we’d rather put our money toward an iPhone X or an OLED TV. Currently, an increasing share of the value of the world’s goods and services comes from the input of machines rather than people. So the fruit of the world’s production goes to the owners of the machines, rather than the workers. Hussain tells us that the eight richest individuals have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world. Four of the top eight owe their fortunes to information and communication technology. When the singularity comes, these guys, or people like them, will own it. Technology is driving further concentration of wealth. Won’t AGI accelerate this? Shouldn’t we have a public conversation about this? Hussain replaces this public conversation with unalloyed optimism and fairy dust. A distinguishing characteristic of AGI, Hussain tells us, will be its ability to set its own goals. AI differs from human intelligence in that it explores all possibilities, whereas the mind prunes options for efficiency, and considers only those options. This difference allowed AlphaGo to beat the world Go master. AGI will be a self-teaching machine that sets its own goals and thinks in a way that is beyond human thought, and therefore, he says, cannot be judged by human standards. He gives an unfortunate analogy for this. When a new alpha male takes over a pride of lions, it kills all the cubs. But we as humans can’t judge lions by human standards. Similarly, he says, AGI will be a higher order of being, and not subject to human judgment. (What if it kills all the cubs?) Hussain is enraptured with the possibilities of creating minds (machines) unencumbered by the restrictions of human biology, human history and common sense, discovering things that we could never conceive of. Since it thinks differently, faster, with more information, how will we possibly evaluate its findings? If it has the ability to act, how can we question its actions? Shouldn’t we at least talk about this? Hussain is unperturbed by this prospect, since he sees the universe and biological systems as computers, since they can be explained by computational processes. For him, handing the world over to an AGI machine is little more than a system upgrade. But the fact that you can make an analogy between humans and computers does not mean that humans are computers. The explanation is not the thing. A recipe is not a cake. An algorithm may be beautiful, but it does not have inherent dignity and worth. One might hope that a book called The Sentient Machine would offer a measured consideration of such questions. Instead, cheerleading Hussain ends with a virtual confession of faith. “We must plant the seeds of artificial intelligence as our ultimate creation and give it the ability and agency to become what it will eventually become. . . . Let there be AI.†Open Pandora’s box. What’s the worst that can happen?
Although I gained some knowledge about AI, I expected a bit more. I lost interest several times while reading this book but I wanted to give it a chance and finish it. Author is too biased on some issues, like advantages of military use of AI. I just see the world differently than him. AI is a big threat to humanity and we can't just say "Let there be AI." We're probably already past the point of no return. We'll just have to see what the future holds.
Husain expertly introduces the concepts behind artificial intelligence and paints an optimistic view that this technology can help people rather than being a doomsday device. It is well written and is quite easy to understand.
A compelling and entertaining journey into the emerging computer technologies of artificial intelligence, neural networks, the Internet of Things, augmented reality, cyber-currencies, computer security, and social networks, and their likely role and influence on the future of humanity. Well worth the time.
Throughout The Sentient Machine, Amir Husain challenges the reader to ask the hard questions, while also conveying a sense of hope through insightful stories of both his life and commentary on one of today’s biggest topics: Artificial Intelligence. While some prominent figures such as Elon Musk have created a public fear of how AI will be a net negative on society to put it nicely, Mr. Husain provides an alternate view on how AI should be embraced with the benefits to society that it brings not only today, but for generations to come. This resonated with me as a I continually see problems that could benefit from a machine learning solution. Gone are the days of traditional brute force solutions (throwing more people on a problem, better computer hardware etc.), but a fundamental change to think about how we can use neural networks (among other machine learning approaches) and truly embrace where computers can accelerate and benefit our society.Few books can captivate the reader with a perfect combination of the author’s own insights, but also invoke questions after reading simply a paragraph (something I found myself doing quite often as I read the book).If you’re looking for a book to dive into Artificial Intelligence I highly recommend The Sentient Machine
This book forecasts the incredible potential of sentient machines- robots (bots) with human characteristics and super- human intellectual capacity. I specifically recommend it to all who have an interest in the future of our human existence.
Fascinating take on AI implications in the marketplace and for the future. Lots to think about...
I find the chapter on mind hacking particularly resonant in today’s social media universe. The discussion of tribal and religious narratives enlightening.
, by Amir Husain PDF
, by Amir Husain EPub
, by Amir Husain Doc
, by Amir Husain iBooks
, by Amir Husain rtf
, by Amir Husain Mobipocket
, by Amir Husain Kindle
No comments:
Post a Comment