Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

by Robert M. Geraci

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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...

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  • ISBN10 0199741336
  • ISBN13 9780199741335
  • Publish Date December 2010 (first published 1 May 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Edition New ed.
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 246
  • Language English