Description: Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines or cyberspace and live forever, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea, affecting everything from the world view of online gamers to government research funding and philosophical thought. In Apocalyptic AI, Robert Geraci offers the first serious account of this "cyber-theology" and the people who promote it. Drawing on interviews with roboticists and AI researchers and with devotees of the online game Second Life, among others, Geraci illuminates the ideas of such advocates of Apocalyptic AI as Hans Moravec and Ray Kurzweil. He reveals that the rhetoric of Apocalyptic AI is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity. In both systems, the believer is trapped in a dualistic universe and expects a resolution in which he or she will be translated to a transcendent new world and live forever in a glorified new body. Equally important, Geraci shows how this worldview shapes our culture. Apocalyptic AI has become a powerful force in modern culture. In this superb volume, he shines a light on this belief system, revealing what it is and how it is changing society.
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EAN: 9780199964000
UPC: 9780199964000
ISBN: 9780199964000
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Item Length: 23.4 cm
Book Title: Apocalyptic Ai: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
Item Height: 234mm
Item Width: 164mm
Author: Robert Geraci
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Popular Philosophy, Computer Science, Religious History
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 366g
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
