智慧简史：大脑进化为何是AI未来的关键 A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 432 pages

Publisher:Collins Publishers

Imprint:William Collins

ISBN:9780008560133

Published:10 Oct 2024

Weight:270g

Dimensions:198 x 129 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

通过讲述大脑的起源故事，弥合了人工智能和神经科学之间的鸿沟。

“我觉得这本书太棒了”诺贝尔经济学奖获得者和畅销书《思考，快与慢》的作者丹尼尔·卡尼曼

整个人类大脑 40 亿年的故事可以概括为五项进化突破的高峰，从起初的大脑一直到现代人类大脑。每项突破都来自新的大脑改造，并为动物配备了一套新的智力。

这五项突破是这本书的组织图，它们构成了我们穿越时空的冒险路线。每项突破也与人工智能的突破有着令人着迷的关联。事实上，一路上会有很多这样的惊喜。例如：使人工智能能够在围棋游戏中击败人类的创新——时间差异强化学习——是我们鱼类祖先在 5 亿多年前发现的一项创新。人工智能中许多当前未解之谜（例如“常识”）的答案都可以在老鼠的大脑中找到。情绪从何而来？研究表明，情绪可能只是作为古代蠕虫大脑导航的一种解决方案而产生的。揭开这个进化故事将揭示人类智力的隐藏特征，以及你的思维是如何形成的。

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.

'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow

The entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of intellectual faculties.

These five breakthroughs are the organising map to this book, and they make up our itinerary for our adventure back in time. Each breakthrough also has fascinating corollaries to breakthroughs in AI. Indeed, there will be plenty of such surprises along the way. For instance: the innovation that enabled AI to beat humans in the game of Go – temporal difference reinforcement learning – was an innovation discovered by our fish ancestors over 500 million years ago. The solutions to many of the current mysteries in AI – such as ‘common sense’ – can be found in the tiny brain of a mouse. Where do emotions come from? Research suggests that they may have arisen simply as a solution to navigation in ancient worm brains. Unravelling this evolutionary story will reveal the hidden features of human intelligence and with them, just how your mind came to be.

作者简介

作为人工智能领域的先驱企业家，Max Bennett 有能力弥合人工智能与进化神经科学之间的鸿沟。他的大部分职业生涯都是作为 Bluecore 的联合创始人兼产品官度过的，Bluecore 是全球发展迅猛的人工智能公司之一，近期估值超过 10 亿美元。

Max 自学了神经科学，随后在同行评议的科学期刊上发表了多篇关于进化神经科学、智力和大脑皮层等主题的科学论文。他曾在多个会议和团体上就神经科学和人工智能发表演讲，包括 Numenta、Karl Friston 的团队和 AI4。

As a pioneering artificial intelligence entrepreneur, Max Bennett is well positioned to bridge the gap between AI and evolutionary neuroscience. He spent the bulk of his career as the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Bluecore, one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world, most recently valued at over $1 billion dollars.

Max taught himself neuroscience and has subsequently published numerous scientific papers in peer reviewed scientific journals on the topics of evolutionary neuroscience, intelligence and the neocortex. He has spoken at multiple conferences and groups on the topic of neuroscience and AI, including Numenta, Karl Friston’s group, and AI4.