Building Better Minds
From OpenCog
Building Better Minds, by Dr. Ben Goertzel with co-authors Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller (and many other co-authors for particular chapters), is a book with the simple objective of explaining "how to build a thinking machine." It began as a single volume but has now split into
- Volume I: A Path to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence
- Volume II: An Architecture for Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence
Note: the image to the right was created "just for fun" before the book was split into two volumes and the co-authors were added. The real cover design is still unknown.
More specifically, the book deals with: how to create an intelligent software program that, running on a distributed network of current-quality multicore servers, will display general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond.
Some chapters of the book deal with mathematical and software engineering details; others will be comprehensible the educated layperson with the dedication to absorb a network of complex and original ideas.
Much of the book comprises updated versions of material that already exists on the OpenCog wiki site or in Dr. Goertzel's prior publications; but there is also a significant amount of original material.
The first edition of the book is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2010, in the form of (up to) 1000 autographed hard copies published directly by the OpenCog Foundation, plus a free online PDF version. To pre-order one of these, click here
In early 2011 a second edition will be released via an established scientific publishing house.
A preliminary table of contents for the book is at:
