CHAPTERS

1. Artificial intelligence - that's the fake kind, right? Catching up • Flawed tools • Losing control • Survival

2. What makes computers so smart? In our image • Divide and conquer • Turing point • A symphony of ones and zeros • The limits of divide and conquer

3. What do you mean, smarter than us? The Turing test • Intelligence is multi-faceted • Do we want machines that are smarter than us? • Intelligence is as intelligence does • Smart machines in our future

4. Machines who think Not if, but when • Can a computer be smarter than the humans who program it? • Learning machines • Yes, but a computer can never ______! • Ask me anything • Do boxes understand? • Machines that reproduce • Not smarter than me! • A pragmatic view

5. Let the android do it From tools to goal seekers • Goals and values • Levels of control • What is autonomy, anyway? • Can machines be malicious? • Man-like machines

6. What is intelligence? Common sense • Understanding • Chunking • Understanding is not predictability • Vision and pattern recognition • Imagination and creativity • What aspects of human intelligence would we not want to replicate?

7. What is consciousness? Physical models of consciousness • That inner experience of "I" • Attention and focusing • Self-understanding and the emergence of consciousness • Need to know • The paradox of free will • Illusions and self-deception • Are animals and machines conscious? • Degrees of consciousness • The duplication paradox • Are there any conscious machines today?

8. Can computers have emotions? Emotions as knob settings • Emotions and survival • Emotions as values • Emotions and reason • Is anyone really in there? • Would you want a computer that has emotions? • Does understanding diminish wonder? • Mood-sensing computers • Should we allow machines to have emotions?

9. Can your PC become neurotic? Neurosis in humans • I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that • Machine therapy? • Nano-neuroses?

10. The moral mind Where does morality come from? • Morality in modern cultures • Out of step with the times • Moral inertia • Cultural evolution • New choices

11. Moral problems with intelligent artifacts Old problems in a new light • How we see ourselves • How to treat sentient machines • How should sentient machines behave? • Crime and punishment

12. The moral machine Teaching moral rules • Learning moral rules • Prime directives • Is HAL guilty of murder? • Fuzzy morals • The legal status of machines • Machine evolution

13. Global network to global mind Learning Web • Thinking Web • Who's afraid of the global brain?

14. Will machines take over? Out of control on Wall Street • Out of control at the Pentagon • Living with intelligent machines

15. Why not just pull the plug? Survival instinct • Diversity • Addiction • Cybercide? • Stop the machines?

16. Cultures in collision Surviving technological change • Mind control? • If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

17. Beyond human dignity The ultimate addiction? • A science of human values? • Nature plus nurture • The limits of freedom • The end of human dignity? • My genes made me do it! • Who's in control?

18. Extinction or immortality? The search for immortality • Extinction or evolution? • Where is everybody? • Peaceful coexistence?

19. The enemy within Surrendering our minds • Waiting for the Messiah • The new slavery • Who thinks for us? • The lost art of critical thinking

20. Electronic democracy Do the people really know what's best? • Electronic soapbox • No more secrets • The Napster effect

21. Rethinking the covenant between science and society Is science to blame? • Knowledge is good • The technological imperative • Does science have a conscience? • Technology assessment • Science for sale • Socially aware science • Cleaning house • Human values and the limits of science • Designing our future

22. What about God? The power of myth • The machinery of nature • Wheat and chaff • What about prayer? • East and West • Faith or reason? • Gods for the future • God as super-intelligence