What to Think About Machines That Thi..., John Brockman
What to Think About Machines That Thi..., John Brockman
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What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

Author: John Brockman

Narrator: Brett Barry, Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 14 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2015

Synopsis

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human capacities. No longer just a matter of science-fiction fantasy (2001, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Her, etc.), it is time to seriously consider the reality of intelligent technology, many forms of which are already being integrated into our daily lives. In that spirit, John Brockman, publisher of Edge. org (“the world’s smartest website” – The Guardian), asked the world’s most influential scientists, philosophers, and artists one of today’s most consequential questions: What do you think about machines that think?

About John Brockman

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on October 17, 2019

That´s the only book of this series I wouldn´t recommend. Simply because it´s far too redundant. After about a third of the book, I began to skim and skip and could hardly find more than about a dozen new ideas. As a comparison: On average I get a lot of impulses, ideas and concepts out of this grea......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 06, 2021

It's a 5 star read with great narration, but I highly recommend getting the ebook to study, too. It took me most of the year to get through it. That's not because it is a bad book. It's just packed with almost 200 short essays, each giving me too much to think about. I could only listen to one, mayb......more

Goodreads review by Troy on December 27, 2015

This book holds 200 essays, and most of them are crap. The second Brockman curated 'literary symposium' that I've read that I didn't like. I've read somewhere around seven, and most of them have been brilliant. The problem is, this question largely elicited self-congratulatory moping and starry-eyed......more

Goodreads review by Dinesh on February 13, 2015

Aside from the occasional person who really knows what (s)he's talking about, this collection of essays reads like a bunch of laypeople mouthing off about things they know very little about. Disappointing, compared to past Edge question responses.......more

Goodreads review by Eric on August 11, 2016

A few gems among many essays that seem to have little original or useful in them. I've read several of these Edge essay collections. This is the worst. It may be that this interesting topic is too complex to say anything useful in a page or two which is the normal length in this book. A few are much......more

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