Superhuman

Beyond the Limits of Our Intelligence
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-23479-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

The question driving artificial intelligence (AI) research has shifted. No longer do we ask whether machines can be intelligent, but whether they can match us, or surpass us entirely. And with that question returns an older, deeper fear: the fear of being surpassed.

superhuman (adj.) That which transcends the possibilities and limits of human nature.

transcend (v.) To exceed or go beyond the limits of. To surpass.

After The Shortcut and Machina Sapiens, this is the third episode in a compelling series of books on the new era of thinking machines by Nello Cristianini. AI is now reaching human performance levels in many of the cognitive tasks in which we excel. But what will happen next? Are we entering an era in which machines will be able to understand things that are incomprehensible to us?

No intelligence is unlimited, not even ours, so we ask ourselves: what lies beyond human limits? But while we invest huge amounts of money in building a machine capable of competing with us, we refuse to accept that this is possible. We both desire and fear that encounter.

In this new, visionary book, we will see AI successfully pass extremely difficult tests, right up to the final test, in which they will tackle areas that are impenetrable even for our best experts. Will we be able to understand what lies beyond the limits of our intelligence?

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cristianini, Nello

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Computer Vision
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Neuronale Netzwerke
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Maschinelles Lernen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Spracherkennung, Sprachverarbeitung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Mustererkennung, Biometrik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Artificial Narrow Intelligence: ANI, 1. The Day After, 2. The First Overtake, 3. Beyond the Experts, 4. The Next Challenge, II. Artificial General Intelligence: AGI, 5. How to Measure a Mind, 6. Measuring Machine Intelligence, 7. There Is Always One More Exam, 8. AGI on the Horizon, 9. Two Ways of Thinking, Two Roads Ahead, 10. The Scaling Hypothesis, 11. Reasoning One Step at a Time, III. Artificial Super Intelligence: ASI, 12. Reluctance and Vertigo, 13. The Final Challenge: Artificial Super Intelligence?, 14. Beating Us at Our Own Game, 15. Beyond the Limits of Our Intelligence, 16. Humanity’s Last Exam

Über Autor(innen)

Nello Cristianini has been an influential researcher in the field of machine learning and AI for over 20 years. He is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath, before that he has worked at the University of Bristol, the University of California (Davis), the University of London (Royal Holloway). For his work in machine learning, he has been a past recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and of the ERC Advanced Grant. Cristianini has been the co-author of influential books in machine learning, as well as dozens of academic articles, published in journals that range from AI to the philosophy of science, from the digital humanities to natural language processing, and from sociology to biology. In 2017, he delivered the annual STOA lecture at the European Parliament on the topic of the social impact of AI, a theme that he is still actively investigating. Cristianini has a degree in Physics from the University of Trieste, an MSc in Computational Intelligence from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Bristol.