Artificial Superintelligence [Hardcover]

Azamat Abdoullaev (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

What is the ultimate objective of humanity? Increasingly, it promises to be the same as the final cause of Artificial Intelligence: to build artifacts with superhuman reason or to create machine superintelligences.

The book is committed to proving the thesis that powerful artificial intelligences will be realized in 21st-century computing technologies only when the theory of pure intelligence is constructed.

Reconsidering the fundamentals of reality and machine intelligence, the author argues that such theory presupposes development of a unified theory of reality representing its essential principles and general laws (physical, mental, social, and technological) as a single symbolism common to all domains of the world.

In the book it is cogently shown that to make the ultra-intelligent systems comprehending all substantial knowledge about the worlds of nature, mind, society, and technology, it is necessary to take the fundamental way: Theory of Reality - Mathematical Symbolism - (AI) Science - (AI) Practice, Technology.

Following this way, synthesizing the topmost categories of reality, the idea of pure intelligence, the major constructs and facts of science and mathematics, the author proposed a fundamental and programmable theory of powerfully intelligent machines.

The book persuasively proves that for building the ultra-intelligent artifacts there is hardly any other way except by synthesizing the highest intellectual achievements of the collective human minds in philosophy, science and mathematics and then embodying the symbolized universal knowledge into computing machines.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Will we design our replacements? Can we create something greater than ourselves? Russian philosopher Azamat Abdoullaev takes on these big questions as challenges, and attempts to lay the foundation for rigorous answers in Artificial Superintelligence. His wide range of knowledge encompasses physics, metaphysics, linguistics, psychology, and more--as it must to field such questions so optimistically. He argues not merely that we can build such superhuman machines, but that it is inevitable, and he hopes to hurry us along by encouraging us to think more clearly about what we are doing.

His ultimate thesis is that these superintelligences will require a "theory of everything"--a theory that we are now, of course, sorely missing--in order to surpass us. This theory, a secular grail for modern scientists, will fill in the gaps of our understanding of physical reality; that done [ahem], we can bestow our machines with a framework for understanding the world around them much more sensibly than the set of intuitive kludges we're currently stuck with.

Though Abdoullaev sacrifices readability for precision and completeness throughout, his work still deserves a look from those scientists and lay readers interested in the prospects of artificial intelligence. He takes time to consider our theories of mind and language and how we must adapt them to physical reality in order to build true AI. This fresh, broad look at the nature of human intelligence and its successors should open more than a few eyes and launch some new threads of research. --Rob Lightner

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: F.I.S. Intelligent Systems; 1 edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9963842100
• ISBN-13: 978-9963842100
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,567,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Muddled and Confused, March 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Artificial Superintelligence (Hardcover)

This book is seriously flawed. I could not work out if the author was a mathemetician dabbling (very poorly) with philosophy, or a muddled philosopher bumbling his way around computer science. This is not a serious AI book, it is more a confused manifesto similar to those that pop up all to often on internet AI newsgroups by the various wackos that feel the need to vent their bizzare ideas to all the world.

The author's philosophy is summed up in the last paragraph of his preface: "In sum, the book intends to tell the reader that there is no other way to build ultra-human machine intelligence excepting by synthesizing the highest intellectural achievements of collective human minds in philosophy, science, and mathematics and then embodying such universal knowledge about reality, mind, language, and artifacts into machines".

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too straightforward and technological, July 10, 2000

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Andrey Shatalin (Moscow Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Artificial Superintelligence (Hardcover)

Abdoullaev's exploration of AI issues appears to be very technological and straightforward for such a complex matter. Author did not discuss any philosophical aspects of this problem. In this book AI appears something like Lego game - just take proper ingredients and make your superintelligent system! I think that serios account of "Strong AI" problems could not be done without in-depth discussion of epistemological problems and study of brain functions in cognition.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The very foundations of superintelligent machines., October 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Artificial Superintelligence (Hardcover)

" This book is an invaluable contribution to the most challenging intellectual and technical enterprise. Artificial Superintelligence is a mind-changing book with radically new ideas about nature, mind and language. The chapter on natural processes taking my professional interest proves to be the most adequate model of the natural world for machines with superhuman brainpower. Anybody who concerns with fastly growing intelligent machines science and engineering should read the work to draw inspiration in this fundamental and rigorous study of mechanical intellect." Professor V.Silin, Russian Academy of Sciences.