REINVENTING OURSELVES

ISBN: 9781949267143 Géneros: JP:UB:PDR Sinópsis: This book strives to be neither utopian nor apocalyptical  Nevertheless there is always an unrealistic natural tendency to assume that tomorrow will resemble our positive and negative experiences today only a little bit differentor maybe extremely soinstead of recognizing that we are in the middle of an unknowably disruptive changeThis is a revolution like no other one that is inconceivably pervasive and profound terrifying and tantalizing and above all inevitable and irreversible Whereas the computational power of the human brain is largely prewired by evolution AI capacities arising from computer technology power and applications are growing exponentiallyEntirely new quantum computing technology can now be expected to accelerate processing capacities at progressively astounding rates Just as current AI applications promise to transform an endless variety of peaceful information and problemsolving tasks QC’s capacity to outthink conventional computers presents enormously troubling military and economic cybersecurity challengesIn any case there is no way to turn back the clock of technological progress just as there are no known theoretical limits to computational intelligenceWill such inventions ultimately supersede our most valued qualities capacities and necessities of human natural intelligence Or rather will unfathomably rapid and allencompassing AI developments and applications empower us to reach higher intellectual creative and spiritual potentialsReinventing Ourselves challenges readers to consider multifaceted and interconnected layers of these predominate visions and to contemplate which are likely to be most true Both views will likely prove to be at least partially correctMeanwhile our personal choices are either to reinvent ourselves one day at a time or to accept obsolescence