Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence withou

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This is a revised and expanded second edition of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World . Its core argument remains the same: that an artificial intelligence (AI) that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) – is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim: Human intelligence is a capability of... Read more

This is a revised and expanded second edition of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World. Its core argument remains the same: that an artificial intelligence (AI) that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) – is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim:

Human intelligence is a capability of the human brain and central nervous system, which is a complex dynamic system
Systems of this sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer

In supporting their claim, the authors, Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, biology, and anthropology, setting up their book around three central questions: What are the essential marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do when they attempt to achieve ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)? And why, after more than 50 years, are our interactions with AI, for example when on the telephone with our bank’s computers, still so unsatisfactory?

The first edition was published the same week that ChatGPT was unleashed onto the world. This second edition shows how the arguments in the book apply already to Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. This new edition also brings up to date the arguments relating to the limits of AI, showing why AI systems are best viewed as pieces of mathematics, which cannot think, feel, or will. They also demolish the idea that, with the help of AI, we could ‘solve physics’ in a way that would allow us to create, in the cloud, a perfect simulation of reality in which we could enjoy digital immortality. Such ideas reveal a lack of understanding of physics, mathematics, human biology, and computers.

There is still, as the authors demonstrate in an updated final chapter, a great deal that AI can achieve which will benefit humanity. But these benefits will be achieved without the aid of systems that are more powerful than humans, which are as impossible as AI systems that are intrinsically ‘evil’ or able to ‘will’ a takeover of human society.

Key Changes to the Second Edition

Shows how the arguments of the first edition apply also to new Large Language Models
Adds a treatment of human practical intelligence – of knowing how vs. knowing that – a topic that is ignored by the AI community
Demonstrates why ‘AI ethics’ should be relabelled as ‘ethics of human uses of AI’
Adds a new chapter showing the essential limitations of physics, providing a thorough grounding for the arguments of the book
Demolishes the idea that we might already be living in a simulation

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Jobst Landgrebe is a scientist and entrepreneur with a background in philosophy, mathematics, neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry. Landgrebe is also the founder of Cognotekt, a German AI company which has since 2013 provided working systems used by companies in areas such as insurance claims management, real estate management, and medical billing. After more than 15 years in the AI industry, he has developed an exceptional understanding of the limits and potential of AI in the future.

Barry Smith is one of the most widely cited contemporary philosophers. He has made influential contributions to the foundations of ontology and data science, especially in the biomedical domain. Most recently, his work has led to the creation of an international standard in the ontology field (ISO/IEC 21838), which is the first example of a piece of philosophy that has been subjected to the ISO standardization process.

Critics' Reviews

Praise for the Second Edition:

“The first edition of Landgrebe’s and Smith's Why Machines Will Never Rule the World was an an excellent and indeed exemplary work of philosophy. But the second, revised and expanded edition is even better: conceptually comprehensive, rigorously argued, formally airtight, and absolutely convincing. So-called ‘artificial intelligence,’ aka AI, is nothing but a myth, because although it's artificial, it cannot, even in principle, be intelligent in the sense in which rational human animals are intelligent; and ‘AI ethics’ is in fact the ‘ethics of human uses of AI.’ This book is profoundly relevant to the present and future condition of humankind.” --Robert Hanna, Editor of Borderless Philosophy

Praise for the First Edition:

"It’s a highly impressive piece of work that makes a new and vital contribution to the literature on AI and AGI. The rigor and depth with which the authors make their case is compelling, and the range of disciplinary and scientific knowledge they draw upon is particularly remarkable and truly novel."
Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Chair, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh.

Why Machines Will Never Rule the World Artificial Intelligence without Fear

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