Engines of CreationIn this original book about the consequences of new technologies, Drexler takes the reader through exhilarating new discoveries and the promise of those around the corner. Beginning with the insight that what we can do depends on what we can build, Drexler analyzes nanotechnology, which involves the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules. He makes a plausible case for expecting technological developments in artificial intelligence and molecular engineering that will result in tiny mechanisms being controlled by microscopic powerful thinking computers. He also explains how the new alternatives could be directed toward vital human concerns -- wealth or poverty, health or sickness, peace or war. ISBN 0-385-19972-4: $17.95. |
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Page 73
... suggest plausible actions to follow or implausible ones to avoid ; in effect , various rules of thumb . It uses heuristics to suggest topics to work on , and further heuristics to suggest what approaches to try and how to judge the ...
... suggest plausible actions to follow or implausible ones to avoid ; in effect , various rules of thumb . It uses heuristics to suggest topics to work on , and further heuristics to suggest what approaches to try and how to judge the ...
Page 81
... suggest that we take the dangers of such engines of creation very seriously indeed . Decisive breakthroughs in technical and social AI will be years in arriving . As Marvin Minsky has said , " The modestly intelligent ma- chines of the ...
... suggest that we take the dangers of such engines of creation very seriously indeed . Decisive breakthroughs in technical and social AI will be years in arriving . As Marvin Minsky has said , " The modestly intelligent ma- chines of the ...
Page 181
... suggest that AI researchers model their programs still more closely on the evolved structure of the scientific community . They point to the pluralism of science , to its diversity of competing proposers , sup- porters , and critics ...
... suggest that AI researchers model their programs still more closely on the evolved structure of the scientific community . They point to the pluralism of science , to its diversity of competing proposers , sup- porters , and critics ...
Contents
Engines of Construction | 3 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 39 |
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