What Is Intelligence?

What intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future--the “predictive brain” hypothesis. In The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, <What Is Intelligence?< argues--quite against the grain--that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society, and the founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, an organization dedicated to fundamental AI research. He is the author of Who Are We Now?, and his research has included work on privacy-preserving machine learning, on-device AI, large language models, and human identity.

Inhalt
Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1 Origins
2 Survival
Interlude: The Prehistory of Computing
3 Cybernetics
4 Learning
5 Other Minds
6 Many Worlds
7 Ourselves
8 Transformer
9 Generality
Interlude: No Perfect Heroes or Villains
10 Evolutionary Transition