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Title: In Our Own Image

Subtitle: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Author: George Zarkadakis

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 54 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

A timely and important book that explores the societal and ethical implications of artificial intelligence as we approach the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution.

George Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationships: our ties with artificial intelligence, or AI. He traces AI's origins in ancient myth, through literary classics like Frankenstein to today's science fiction blockbusters, arguing that a fascination with AI is hardwired into the human psyche. He explains AI's history, technology, and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness; and - perhaps most tellingly - what AI reveals about us as human beings.

In Our Own Image argues that we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution - poised to enter the age of artificial intelligence as science fiction becomes science fact. Ultimately, Zarkadakis observes, the fate of AI has profound implications for the future of science and humanity itself.

Members Reviews:

simply the most intelligent book on this subject .

could not stop listening....it is better than any college course you could find on the subject.

Wide-ranging analysis, all of it fascinating

Any additional comments?

This is the best book I have read on human consciousness. I really appreciated the blend of cultural background with the reporting on scientific research. Especially if you think the Turing Test is all there is to determining artificial intelligence, think again! I learned a lot from this book and enjoyed every bit of it.

As important as Age of Spiritual Machines.

Worth re-reading several times. Zarkadakis makes fundamental questions about AI accessible. Will buy in print.

Great subject, but a bit lop sided

What did you like best about In Our Own Image? What did you like least?

An excellent subject not too many have delved into. It is one of very few books which tackles the possibility of AI, which is becoming more probable year by year. A courageous attempt to explain the progression of technology in to what might become an artificial intelligence.

Who was your favorite character and why?

N/A

What aspect of Gildart Jacksons performance would you have changed?

May be a little more of a dramatic voice for a dramatic subject

Did In Our Own Image inspire you to do anything?

Not really a book that inspires, but it is informative.

Any additional comments?

I would have liked the author to spend more time on the affects of a super AI and the existential threat it might have on humanity. I can understand this might mean some guess work, but it goes with the subject.

Great book despite attempts to save physicalism

Otherwise great book but spoiled by futile attempts to save the outdated model of materialism/physicalism. We are now ever closer to shed the centuries-old materialistic paradigm. Recently groups of researchers converge on the notion that consciousness is resolutely computational.Quantum indeterminacy resolves every conscious moment into a subjective digital (discrete) reality. Any kind of information processing is a relativistic concept which is universally applicable and thus idealistic in nature.

Perhaps what would pull the rug from under physicalism is a notion of ever deeper levels of abstraction that only minds can create and perceive.