TY - BOOK ID - 139047170 TI - AI AND THE SINGULARITY : A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY? AU - Logan, Robert K. AU - Braga, Adriana PY - 2020 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - technological Singularity KW - intelligence KW - emotion KW - artificial general intelligence KW - artificial intelligence KW - computer KW - logic KW - figure/ground KW - computers KW - consciousness KW - singularity KW - self KW - futures KW - technological singularity KW - philosophy KW - cosmic evolution KW - anthropology KW - technical singularity KW - non-axiomatic reasoning system KW - metasystem transitions KW - patterns KW - patterning KW - cognition KW - set theory KW - language KW - information KW - abductive reasoning KW - futurism and futurology KW - hard science fiction KW - models of consciousness KW - intelligent machines KW - machine replication KW - machine evolution and optimization KW - Turing test KW - embodiment KW - competition KW - cooperation KW - self-organization KW - robots KW - heterogeneity KW - team sports KW - artificial intelligence (AI) KW - automated journalism KW - robo-journalism KW - writing algorithms KW - future of news KW - media ecology KW - autogenous intelligence KW - bootstrap fallacy KW - recursive self-improvement KW - self-modifying software KW - superintelligence KW - skepticism KW - cyborg KW - evolution KW - love KW - misinformation KW - Technological Singularity KW - Accelerated Change KW - Artificial (General) Intelligence KW - apophenia KW - pareidolia KW - complexity KW - research focused social network KW - networked minds KW - complexity break KW - complexity fallacy KW - philosophy of information KW - machine learning KW - information quality KW - information friction KW - Artificial Intelligence (AI) KW - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) KW - Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) KW - social sciences KW - embodied cognition KW - value alignment KW - experience KW - phenomenal consciousness KW - access consciousness KW - percept KW - concept KW - deep neural networks KW - meaning KW - understanding KW - Singularity KW - intuition KW - wisdom UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139047170 AB - "AI and the Technological Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great Opportunity" is a collection of essays that addresses the question of whether the technological singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can program the next generation of AI-based computers until a singularity is achieved, where an AI-based computer can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. The group of scholars that address this question have a variety of positions on the singularity, ranging from advocates to skeptics. No conclusion can be reached, as the development of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and there is much wishful thinking and imagination in this issue rather than trustworthy data. The reader will find a cogent summary of the issues faced by researchers who are working to develop the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, artificial general intelligence. The only conclusion that can be reached is that there exists a variety of well-argued positions as to where AI research is headed. ER -