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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Boosting computer power won't make them truly any more intelligent.
Chapter 2: Information from our senses is processed and stored as memory across the many layers of the complex brain.
Chapter 3: Our brain draws on memories of how it reacted before to predict future events accurately.
Chapter 4: Neural networks will not be able to imitate the brain, as they lack its complexity.
Chapter 5: Scientists will likely indeed manage to build intelligent machines in the near future.
Chapter 6: Intelligent machines pose no threat to humanity; on the contrary, they will offer countless benefits.
Description
These blinks provide an overview of the human brain’s capacity for thinking and for comparing new experiences to old memories. They also explain why today’s machines still aren’t able to emulate this capability, but why we may soon be able to build ones that can.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in how the brain works or what makes us intelligent and conscious beings
- Anyone who wants to know whether we’ll ever build machines that are truly intelligent
- Anyone wondering whether such intelligent machines would be good or bad for humanity