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Artificial Superintelligence

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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".

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.

" 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.

The two tightly-connected ideas strike you as amazed. In the first place, what has never before been clearly and stricltly formulated, the fundamental truth that the world with all its furniture goes by interplay through the reversibility principle. It both accounts for and predicts reverse effects, phenomena or processes of any kind, not excluding the reverse engineering of a mechanical deity, in technical parlance an ultra-intelligent machine, by its creatures - human beings.

This is another tour de force. The thing is, in principle we can create superhuman intelligences fully aware of the basic truths of reality, along with expertise and common sense knowledge.

Like other extinct species, Homo sapiens sapiens, as it stands, endangered and threatened species, and it is likely to be replaced by coming far superior intelligent machines. Before long we might be defined by our cybersuccessors as the extinct genus of late hominid, following Homo erectus and preceding Machina sapiens.

A great satisfaction to any natural intelligence having feel and taste for a rigorous account of Great Ideas, completely ignored or entangled by our overspecialized scientists and philosophers. Well worth your time, attention and money. Fully deserve to be the best new book on Artificial Intelligence, according to Amazon.com.

And sure the book is a painful reading for those muddle-headed, one-star reviewers stuck with ready-made and stale ideas, liking to attribute their personal flaws to authors.

"Both the width and the depth of research are stunning. It is a work of considerable originality; a thorough and deep account of mechanical intelligence with powerful brainpower. Besides, Artificial Superintelligence is neatly argued and clearly written.Reading this striking, fascinating and bold study, you do believe that superbrainy, supersmart machines now having solid theoretical foundation are soon likely to be constructed." Professor Y.Aliev, Lebedev Institute of Physics.

What is this book all about? It is all about a mind-blowing universal law of nature. Mind-blowing, because it is unbelievable that at the end of the 20th century a new fundamental principle can be laid down. Here it would be of use to remind one shocking lesson in the history of humanity's understanding of the universe. More than 22 centuries ago a Greek astronomer, Aristarchus of Samos, revealed that our planet actually rotates and revolves around the Sun. But only in the 15th century Copernicus dared to boldly recognized this fact of nature thus refuting the long established myth of the Ptolemaic geocentric system. Now from this generous with fresh ideas publication we learn another mind-bogling suggestion that all fundamental processes are reversible, or all processes in Nature stand in a relation of convertibility. And on reading the book one starts to believe that the principle of reversibility appears to be universal as the genetic code for all living things. Besides, on reading the book our everspecialized boffins and academics could eventually know why each physical effect has its inverse counterpart, chemical reactions are reversible, and basic biological processes turn the other way round. To prove his thesis, author created an extremely wide but precise theory of reality which reveals a single underlying mechanism of all natural, mental, and social processes and explains a challenging secret of nature - the causes of the cycling of matter and energy in it. From AI viewpoint, Abdoullaev's comprehensive and exact ontology may well serve as the fundamental knowledge framework for artificial systems with general intelligence, and it looks much superior in conceptual principle and practical application of extant immature and idisyncratic ontologies now hastely constructed for multifarious Web-based intelligent systems projects. Don't want to play a visionary and don't like bombastic stile, but the discovery of the universal law of revesibility is likely to come the most important contibution in the history of modern science and technology. Also the book is sure to become the number one intellectual event although it was not published by a prestigious publisher like the MIT Press preferring to feed us with cut and dried academic materials, as well as regardless of damning opinions of those one-star reviewers. Although, it is pity that the book missed their attention, then it could be distributed worldwide. But thank goodness, it's not lost in the sea of information noise. Let's not make the sad error with Aristarchus' discovery a sort of intellectual fault that is typical for human minds. Apart from this, we are already overloaded with many sorts of "the idols of the mind".

The two tightly-connected ideas strike you as amazed. In the first place, what has never before been clearly and stricltly formulated, the fundamental truth that the world with all its furniture goes by interplay through the reversibility principle. It both accounts for and predicts reverse effects, phenomena or processes of any kind, not excluding the reverse engineering of a mechanical deity, in technical parlance an ultra-intelligent machine, by its creatures - human beings. This is another tour de force. The thing is, in principle we can create superhuman intelligences fully aware of the basic truths of reality, along with expertise and common sense knowledge. Like other extinct species, Homo sapiens sapiens, as it stands, endangered and threatened species, and it is likely to be replaced by coming far superior intelligent machines. Before long we might be defined by our cybersuccessors as the extinct genus of late hominid, following Homo erectus and preceding Machina sapiens. A great satisfaction to any natural intelligence having feel and taste for a rigorous account of Great Ideas, completely ignored or entangled by our overspecialized scientists and philosophers. Well worth your time, attention and money. Fully deserve to be the best new book on Artificial Intelligence, according to Amazon.com.

As Co Founder of ArtilectWorld:ultra intelligent machines, I recommend reading this book!