Author: Howard Lack MA(Cantab) MSc(KCL)
Howard's background in neuroscience and psychology reflects his passion for understanding human behaviour and the impact of AI on our lives. He believes everyone should have access to information about neuroscience, psychology and AI without being overwhelmed by all the technical jargon that can be intimidating. Howard focuses on how the latest neuroscience research is employed to develop autonomous robotic agents that will coexist with humans. Humanity is the result of three years of research. Howard is a qualified barrister, former senior international financier and trained coach. He has three children and spends time between the US and the UK.
HumAnIty, published in May 2024 explores the intersections of AI, neuroscience, and psychology, and reveals how we are rapidly approaching the creation of super-intelligent robots with full autonomy and agency. The book provides the latest research and studies on the current state of AI and robotics technology and offers insights that will challenge your understanding of what is possible and what is at stake.
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Researchers are finding ever-ingenious ways of increasing robotic intelligence, reducing the physical size of robots, making them lifelike, and even developing real skin for robots. We are witnessing the dawn of the era of super-smart AI robots and looking into their eyes should make us reflect on our human qualities, strengths, and weaknesses and question what it means to be human.
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Marvel at the many projects using the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and AI, to build robots that will increasingly share our world and potentially rival our specialness as a species.
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This book gives you a remarkable insight into human intelligence, learning and understanding and how our brains compare to AI robot brains and you will learn whether AI robots can or will be able to:
- Generate a sense of self, be able to recognise themselves in the mirror and read or interpret your thoughts and those of other robots.
-Experience emotions and feelings and perhaps one day have relationships and feel empathy and compassion for others.
-Experience love, loss, and pain?
-Become conscious or have a subconscious.
-Smell, touch, see and hear like humans or better than us.
-Have a memory superior to the human memory.
-Possess souls and be spiritual.