Between Ape and Artilect is edited by noted AI researcher Ben Goertzel, and produced by futurist organization Humanity+. During 2010-12, Dr. Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science — artificial general intelligence, nanotechnology, life extension, neurotechnology, collective intelligence, mind uploading, body modification, neuro-spiritual transformation, and more. These interviews were published online in H+ Magazine, and are here gathered together in a single volume. The resulting series of dialogues treats a variety of social, futurological and scientific topics in a way that is accessible to the educated non-scientist, yet also deep and honest to the subtleties of the topics being discussed. Between Ape and Artilect is a must-read if you want the real views, opinions, ideas, muses and arguments of the people creating our future.

Table of Contents

• Itamar Arel: AGI via Deep Learning
• Pei Wang: What Do You Mean by “AI”?
• Joscha Bach: Understanding the Mind
• Hugo DeGaris: Will There be Cyborgs?
• DeGaris Interviews Goertzel: Seeking the Sputnik of AGI
• Linas Vepstas: AGI, Open Source and Our Economic Future
• Joel Pitt: The Benefits of Open Source for AGI
• Randal Koene: Substrate-Independent Minds
• João Pedro de Magalhães: Ending Aging
• Aubrey De Grey: Aging and AGI
• David Brin: Sousveillance
• J. Storrs Hall: Intelligent Nano Factories and Fogs
• Mohamad Tarifi: AGI and the Emerging Peer-to-Peer Economy
• Michael Anissimov: The Risks of Artificial Superintelligence
• Muehlhauser & Goertzel: Rationality, Risk, and the Future of AGI
• Paul Werbos: Will Humanity Survive?
• Wendell Wallach: Machine Morality
• Francis Heylighen: The Emerging Global Brain
• Steve Omohundro: The Wisdom of the Global Brain and the Future of AGI
• Alexandra Elbakyan: Beyond the Borg
• Giulio Prisco: Technological Transcendence
• Zhou Changle: Zen and the Art of Intelligent Robotics
• Hugo DeGaris: Is God an Alien Mathematician?
• Lincoln Cannon: The Most Transhumanist Religion?
• Natasha Vita-More: Upgrading Humanity

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