,Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Origin of Life
What Is Life?
How Did Life Originate?
Extremophiles
Origin of Solar System
Primordial Soup
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Evolution of Species
Introduction
Evolution of life
Adaptation
Starting with Single Cell
Multicellular Organisms
Arrival of Humans
Tools
Alternatives to Darwinian Evolution
Teleology
Exaptation
Lamarckism
Mutationism
Intelligent Design
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Human Intelligence
What Is Human Intelligence?
Acquisition of Knowledge
Hearing (Audition)
Sight (Vision)
Taste (Gustation)
Smell (Olfaction)
Touch (Tactility)
Other Sensory Systems
Application of Knowledge and Skills
Extended Fluidity in Human Brain
Skills
Recent Extinctions
Early Extinctions
Tools
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Origin of Machines
Examples of Early Machines
Wheel
Shaduf
Inclined Plane
Pulley
,Screw
Astrolabe
Timekeeping Machines
Windmill
Waterwheel
Heat
Electricity
Printing Machine
Nuclear Energy
Computer and Robots
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Machine Intelligence
Classic Machines
Mechanical Feedback
Concept of Learning
Multimodal Learning
Machine Learning
Linear Regression
Decision Trees
K-Nearest Neighbors
Artificial Neural Network
Deep Neural Networks
Generative Models
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Humans in Intelligent Environment: Near Future
Carbon and Silicon
Manufacturing of Integrated Chips
Extrapolation and Human-like Intelligence
Adapting to Intelligent Machines
SuperAI
Impact of SuperAI on Job Market
Ethics and SuperAI
Always Global
Fair and Just Attribution
Honest and Trustworthy
Value of Life
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Intellectual Humanity
Above and Beyond
Human DNA
The Double-Edged Sword
The Natural Distribution
Origin of Money
Rise of Civilizations
Capitalism
Communism
, Intellectual Humanism
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Final Words
Index
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024
A. JoshiArtificial Intelligence and Human Evolutionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9807-7_1
1. Introduction
Ameet Joshi1
(1)
REDMOND, WA, USA
The rapid growth in the field of machine intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) in recent
years is truly mind boggling and has created an unprecedented level of excitement about the
field in the minds of people who are in the know, and the people in the know are increasing
exponentially. The notion of AI is not quite novel to most people in the twenty-first century,
as many Hollywood blockbusters such as 2001: A Space
Odyssey, Terminator series, Matrix series, to name a few, have already introduced this
concept in quite a dramatic manner starting in the mid-twentieth century. Some movies, or
at least parts of them, have painted a bright future where AI is helping humans to achieve
more by taking over the repetitive, boring, hazardous tasks and giving them time to focus on
the activities that really matter and improve their lives, while others have painted a grim
picture where AI has progressed to become a superior and more advanced species in itself
and is treating humans with hostility and is taking control of the world and treating humans
as slaves. Both the scenarios are interesting or exciting from the perspective of
entertainment and have made the respective movies a huge box office success. However,
when AI can potentially become a reality, the two implications can lead us toward very
different paths and one of them is definitely not desired.
I have been meaning to write a book on the role of artificial intelligence or AI in our lives for
a few years now, but narrowing down on the scope that would be apt for a single book kept
me thinking and ultimately procrastinating. The emergence of ChatGPT and subsequent rise
of interest in the topic coupled with increasing confusion, even scare, about what AI is and
what AI can do and how it is going to affect our day-to-day lives helped me zero in on what
precisely I wanted to focus on for this book.
One of the crucial differences between human intelligence and AI, at least for now, is that AI
is totally and completely under the control of humans. AI cannot function without humans
turning the power switch ON and AI cannot reproduce itself. So even if potentially capable
of doing more than humans, AI does not have free will as of today. However, the development
of AI is not entirely organized or planned. Each new step or breakthrough in technology has
come as a result of competition between enterprises that employ researchers and scientists
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Origin of Life
What Is Life?
How Did Life Originate?
Extremophiles
Origin of Solar System
Primordial Soup
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Evolution of Species
Introduction
Evolution of life
Adaptation
Starting with Single Cell
Multicellular Organisms
Arrival of Humans
Tools
Alternatives to Darwinian Evolution
Teleology
Exaptation
Lamarckism
Mutationism
Intelligent Design
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Human Intelligence
What Is Human Intelligence?
Acquisition of Knowledge
Hearing (Audition)
Sight (Vision)
Taste (Gustation)
Smell (Olfaction)
Touch (Tactility)
Other Sensory Systems
Application of Knowledge and Skills
Extended Fluidity in Human Brain
Skills
Recent Extinctions
Early Extinctions
Tools
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Origin of Machines
Examples of Early Machines
Wheel
Shaduf
Inclined Plane
Pulley
,Screw
Astrolabe
Timekeeping Machines
Windmill
Waterwheel
Heat
Electricity
Printing Machine
Nuclear Energy
Computer and Robots
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Machine Intelligence
Classic Machines
Mechanical Feedback
Concept of Learning
Multimodal Learning
Machine Learning
Linear Regression
Decision Trees
K-Nearest Neighbors
Artificial Neural Network
Deep Neural Networks
Generative Models
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Humans in Intelligent Environment: Near Future
Carbon and Silicon
Manufacturing of Integrated Chips
Extrapolation and Human-like Intelligence
Adapting to Intelligent Machines
SuperAI
Impact of SuperAI on Job Market
Ethics and SuperAI
Always Global
Fair and Just Attribution
Honest and Trustworthy
Value of Life
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Intellectual Humanity
Above and Beyond
Human DNA
The Double-Edged Sword
The Natural Distribution
Origin of Money
Rise of Civilizations
Capitalism
Communism
, Intellectual Humanism
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Final Words
Index
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024
A. JoshiArtificial Intelligence and Human Evolutionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9807-7_1
1. Introduction
Ameet Joshi1
(1)
REDMOND, WA, USA
The rapid growth in the field of machine intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) in recent
years is truly mind boggling and has created an unprecedented level of excitement about the
field in the minds of people who are in the know, and the people in the know are increasing
exponentially. The notion of AI is not quite novel to most people in the twenty-first century,
as many Hollywood blockbusters such as 2001: A Space
Odyssey, Terminator series, Matrix series, to name a few, have already introduced this
concept in quite a dramatic manner starting in the mid-twentieth century. Some movies, or
at least parts of them, have painted a bright future where AI is helping humans to achieve
more by taking over the repetitive, boring, hazardous tasks and giving them time to focus on
the activities that really matter and improve their lives, while others have painted a grim
picture where AI has progressed to become a superior and more advanced species in itself
and is treating humans with hostility and is taking control of the world and treating humans
as slaves. Both the scenarios are interesting or exciting from the perspective of
entertainment and have made the respective movies a huge box office success. However,
when AI can potentially become a reality, the two implications can lead us toward very
different paths and one of them is definitely not desired.
I have been meaning to write a book on the role of artificial intelligence or AI in our lives for
a few years now, but narrowing down on the scope that would be apt for a single book kept
me thinking and ultimately procrastinating. The emergence of ChatGPT and subsequent rise
of interest in the topic coupled with increasing confusion, even scare, about what AI is and
what AI can do and how it is going to affect our day-to-day lives helped me zero in on what
precisely I wanted to focus on for this book.
One of the crucial differences between human intelligence and AI, at least for now, is that AI
is totally and completely under the control of humans. AI cannot function without humans
turning the power switch ON and AI cannot reproduce itself. So even if potentially capable
of doing more than humans, AI does not have free will as of today. However, the development
of AI is not entirely organized or planned. Each new step or breakthrough in technology has
come as a result of competition between enterprises that employ researchers and scientists
