- Publish date
- 2014
- Publisher
- TEELL
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CitationArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
Cited as the definitive textbook defining standard rational agent frameworks and foundational AI algorithms.
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CitationEngines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
K. Eric Drexler
Cited regarding physical limits of computation and the rapid manufacturing potential enabled by molecular nanotechnology.
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Global Catastrophic Risks
Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic
Cited for foundational frameworks and taxonomies categorizing existential threats to humanity.
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CitationThe Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
Cited regarding exponential hardware growth trends and projections of an intelligence explosion.
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CitationMind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
Hans Moravec
Cited for early calculations on brain computational capacity and the feasibility of whole-brain emulation.
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CitationThe Emperor's New Mind
Roger Penrose
Referenced regarding non-computable physics objections to machine intelligence.
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CitationRobot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
Hans Moravec
Cited for estimates of sensory-motor processing requirements compared to human cortical capacity.
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CitationNanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
K. Eric Drexler
Cited for technical thermodynamic and structural limits of mechanistic computation.
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CitationOur Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark
Cited regarding cosmological scale and the theoretical limits of physical resource utilization.
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CitationGödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
Referenced on issues of self-reference, cognitive architectures, and substrate independence.
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