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Gaming AI: Why AI Can't Think but Can Transform Jobs Paperback – October 15, 2020

by Gilder George (Author)

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Pointing to the triumph of artificial intelligence over unaided humans in everything from games such as chess and Go to vital tasks such as protein folding and securities trading, many experts uphold the theory of a “singularity.” This is the trigger point when human history ends and artificial intelligence prevails in an exponential cascade of self-replicating machines rocketing toward godlike supremacy in the universe. Gaming AI suggests that this belief is both dumb and self-defeating. Displaying a profound and crippling case of professional amnesia, the computer science establishment shows an ignorance of the most important findings of its own science, from Kurt Gödel’s “incompleteness” to Alan Turing’s “oracle” to Claude Shannon’s “entropy.” Dabbling in quantum machines, these believers in machine transcendence defy the deepest findings of quantum theory. Claiming to create minds, they are clinically “out of their minds.” Despite the quasi-religious pretensions of techno-elites nobly saving the planet from their own devices, their faith in a techno-utopian singularity is a serious threat to real progress. An industry utterly dependent on human minds will not prosper by obsoleting both their customers and their creators. Gaming AI calls for a remedial immersion in the industry’s own heroic history and an understanding of the actual science of their own human minds.
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  1. Print length
    64 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    October 15, 2020
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1936599872
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1936599875
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Discovery Institute
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1936599872
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1936599875
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.67 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #809,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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George Gilder, one of the leading economic and technological thinkers of the past forty years, is the author of nineteen books, including Wealth and Poverty, Life After Television, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money, and Life After Google. A founding fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he began his study of information theory, and an influential venture investor, he lives with his wife in western Massachusetts.

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  • Boomdog
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional read, full of Knowledge & Learning
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021
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    Fantastic!! The analogous manner aspect this story is on target, and very well written all around. The learning is steep, and very well researched, and quite thorough along with many relevant, and exceptional, historical references to this technological A.I. game. Very much recommend this read, yes.
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  • Steve Waite
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mind over Matter
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2020
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    In this short but important book, Gilder makes a convincing case - contrary to the prevailing conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley and elsewhere - that AI will not create a human mind. The promise of AI in the future lies in fostering real gains in productivity - gains that expand employment opportunities and fuel wealth creation and general prosperity over time.
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  • Thomas M. Cole
    4.0 out of 5 stars Gilder does it again. Great use of words, old and new, to illucidate concepts
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2023
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    Great use of words, old and new, to describe our new and coming world of AI. Short and to the point.
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  • Paula Evans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice overview
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2021
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    The book is a great overview of AI. I am a fan of George Gilder now. He has technical expertise and provides detail supporting his perspective
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  • RCE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Describes things AI will conceptually never be able do, but the great value of what it can do.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020
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    In this short, but cogent, book, George Gilder clarifies common misunderstandings and expectations surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), such as the idea that AI is capable of creative thought (e.g., as is the human brain). Regardless of these inherent limitations of AI (nominally that it works only within a symbol space, lacking the essential intermediary capability to translate between this symbol space and the real world (i.e., between "the map and the territory" as Gilder puts it. Recognizing the inherent limitations of AI, it still offers enormous economic benefits when properly exploited.
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  • Michael Montgomery
    5.0 out of 5 stars Counter Thinking by Gilder (again)
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2025
    Always so enjoyable to delve into Gilder’s mind and thoughts. He presents an alternative view on quantum computers and artificial intelligence that is much needed.
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  • richard
    4.0 out of 5 stars Short and clear
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2021
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    Liked the read. It seems to also incorporate the key ideas from the author in the past few books, plus new perspectives.

    The only minus is it's short, a bit expensive for the length.
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  • Colleen Cayes
    5.0 out of 5 stars The truth about AI
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2020
    I just spent a blissful hour with Gaming AI. I could have read it more quickly, but I had to pause frequently to relish, savor, delight in the author's turn of phrase, sardonic wit, barely concealed sarcasms, and magnificent insights.
    I’ve ordered it for my younger colleagues who may not know the history and why AI can transform jobs, but will never think. Poor Elon, right about so many things, but not this! George Gilder has invested decades of study and interviewed the greats; he gorgeously elucidates it all for the rest of us in 63 shimmering pages.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME
    Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2023
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