Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199964009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Portions of the book, especially the chapter on virtual reality and video games, would also be appropriate for the undergraduate classroom." --Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"Robert Geraci's thoughtful examination of technology-based quests for transcendence offers a serious look at apocalyptic scenarios that, while remaining for now in the realm of science fiction, nonetheless claim significant cultural influence. Touretzky, Research Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. "Scholars interested in the intersection of popular science and religion will likely find Geraci's work helpful. I don't know when we will see robots with human-like intelligence, but our longi
Engaging, Accessible, Wonderfully Researched - Must Read! Having had a long standing interest in the concepts of artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual existence, and mind uploading, and extremely intrigued by the possibilities that may be opening up within the next fifty years as technology continues its exponential curve of advancement, I was very excited to get my hands on this book.Mr. Keraci . James A. Brannan said Great Book - If You Don't Mind It is for Academics. Title summarizes my thoughts on this book. I bought it from Amazon based upon the title and description alone, without being able to thumb through it. I thought it would be written in a pop-science style. Instead it was written like an academic book, which, surprise surprise, I suppose it is. Lots of "as discussed by X in Y" which proved distra. "Religious ideas repackaged" according to Simon Laub. Apocalyptic AI is the idea that we might one day upload our minds into machines or cyberspace and live forever.This might sound very new and high tech, but apocalyptic ideas have been with us for thousands of years.And probably, the only new thing in Apocalyptic AI is the rephrasing of these ideas from a religious language into a technical lang
In this superb volume, he shines a light on this belief system, revealing what it is and how it is changing society.. 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. In ApocalypticAI, 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. Apocalyptic AI has become a powerful force in modern culture. Equally impo
Geraci is Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College. Robert M. . He was the Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation EAGER grant studying meaningful and transcendent experiences in virtual worlds (2011-2014) and was Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, where he studied the intersection of religion and technology in India's high tech communties (2012-2013).