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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 151 kr
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The book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence—sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)—is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim: Human intelligence is a capability of a complex dynamic system—the human brain and central nervous system. Systems of this sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer.In supporting their claim, the authors, Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and biology, setting up their book around three central questions: What are the essential marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do when they attempt to achieve "artificial intelligence" (AI)? And why, after more than 50 years, are our most common interactions with AI, for example with our bank’s computers, still so unsatisfactory? Landgrebe and Smith show how a widespread fear about AI’s potential to bring about radical changes in the nature of human beings and in the human social order is founded on an error. There is still, as they demonstrate in a final chapter, a great deal that AI can achieve which will benefit humanity. But these benefits will be achieved without the aid of systems that are more powerful than humans, which are as impossible as AI systems that are intrinsically "evil" or able to "will" a takeover of human society.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
594 kr
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This is a revised and expanded second edition of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World. Its core argument remains the same: that an artificial intelligence (AI) that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) – is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim:Human intelligence is a capability of the human brain and central nervous system, which is a complex dynamic systemSystems of this sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computerIn supporting their claim, the authors, Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, biology, and anthropology, setting up their book around three central questions: What are the essential marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do when they attempt to achieve ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)? And why, after more than 50 years, are our interactions with AI, for example when on the telephone with our bank’s computers, still so unsatisfactory?The first edition was published the same week that ChatGPT was unleashed onto the world. This second edition shows how the arguments in the book apply already to Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. This new edition also brings up to date the arguments relating to the limits of AI, showing why AI systems are best viewed as pieces of mathematics, which cannot think, feel, or will. They also demolish the idea that, with the help of AI, we could ‘solve physics’ in a way that would allow us to create, in the cloud, a perfect simulation of reality in which we could enjoy digital immortality. Such ideas reveal a lack of understanding of physics, mathematics, human biology, and computers.There is still, as the authors demonstrate in an updated final chapter, a great deal that AI can achieve which will benefit humanity. But these benefits will be achieved without the aid of systems that are more powerful than humans, which are as impossible as AI systems that are intrinsically ‘evil’ or able to ‘will’ a takeover of human society.Key Changes to the Second EditionShows how the arguments of the first edition apply also to new Large Language ModelsAdds a treatment of human practical intelligence – of knowing how vs. knowing that – a topic that is ignored by the AI communityDemonstrates why ‘AI ethics’ should be relabelled as ‘ethics of human uses of AI’Adds a new chapter showing the essential limitations of physics, providing a thorough grounding for the arguments of the bookDemolishes the idea that we might already be living in a simulation
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 151 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This is a revised and expanded second edition of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World. Its core argument remains the same: that an artificial intelligence (AI) that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) – is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim:Human intelligence is a capability of the human brain and central nervous system, which is a complex dynamic systemSystems of this sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computerIn supporting their claim, the authors, Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, biology, and anthropology, setting up their book around three central questions: What are the essential marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do when they attempt to achieve ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)? And why, after more than 50 years, are our interactions with AI, for example when on the telephone with our bank’s computers, still so unsatisfactory?The first edition was published the same week that ChatGPT was unleashed onto the world. This second edition shows how the arguments in the book apply already to Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. This new edition also brings up to date the arguments relating to the limits of AI, showing why AI systems are best viewed as pieces of mathematics, which cannot think, feel, or will. They also demolish the idea that, with the help of AI, we could ‘solve physics’ in a way that would allow us to create, in the cloud, a perfect simulation of reality in which we could enjoy digital immortality. Such ideas reveal a lack of understanding of physics, mathematics, human biology, and computers.There is still, as the authors demonstrate in an updated final chapter, a great deal that AI can achieve which will benefit humanity. But these benefits will be achieved without the aid of systems that are more powerful than humans, which are as impossible as AI systems that are intrinsically ‘evil’ or able to ‘will’ a takeover of human society.Key Changes to the Second EditionShows how the arguments of the first edition apply also to new Large Language ModelsAdds a treatment of human practical intelligence – of knowing how vs. knowing that – a topic that is ignored by the AI communityDemonstrates why ‘AI ethics’ should be relabelled as ‘ethics of human uses of AI’Adds a new chapter showing the essential limitations of physics, providing a thorough grounding for the arguments of the bookDemolishes the idea that we might already be living in a simulation
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
303 kr
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This book explains, in terms that non-experts can easily understand, why the fashionable hopes and fears often vested in AI are illusory. Machines, including computers, will never be able to think, much less plot to take over the world and dispose of the humans who created them. Machines cannot understand anything, and they cannot have emotions or desires.The authors demonstrate that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence―sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)―is for reasons of mathematics and physics, forever impossible. The fundamental reason is that mathematics and physics are only applicable to a small sliver of the universe: they cannot cope with what are called ‘complex systems’.Many influential philosophers and online influencers promote the story that we are approaching a Singularity (a term borrowed from the astrophysics of the Big Bang), where artificial intelligences will become able to think for themselves, and will then design new superintelligences even cleverer than they are, capable of indefinitely improving on their own level of intelligence, and harboring an ominous threat to human existence.Landgrebe and Smith show that this story is at odds with reality. AI products, while they can be very useful and demonstrate the impressive ingenuity and creativity of their human designers, are not truly intelligent at all, and cannot match the intelligence of a chimpanzee, much less a human.In supporting their claim, the authors marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and biology, setting up their argument around three central questions: What are the essential marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do when they attempt to achieve “artificial intelligence”? And why, after sixty years of work on AI, are our most common interactions with AI, for example with our bank’s computers, still so frustrating? All the essentials of these multiple disciplines are spelled out with tremendous clarity and wit.Landgrebe and Smith show how widespread fear about AI’s potential to bring about radical changes in the nature of human beings and in the human social order is founded on provable error. There is still much that so-called ‘AI’ can achieve which will benefit humankind. But these benefits will be accomplished without the aid of entities that are intellectually more powerful than humans.Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith made a huge impact with their scholarly study, Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence without Fear (2022), which rapidly went into a second edition and became an indispensable standard work. Having decided that a more popular explanation was needed, aimed at a broader readership, they decided to write The Myth of Machine Intelligence. Under an assumed name (Arnold Schelsky), Landgrebe also wrote the exciting and controversial book, The Hype Cycle: Uppers and Downers in Our Bipolar Culture (2025).