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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aQ334.7 _b.F65 2025
100	1		_aFolman, Ron, _d1963- _eauthor _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
245	1	4	_aThe human test : _bhow predictability, creativity, and the quantum mind will redefine life in the age of AI / _cRon Folman.
264		1	_aEssex, Connecticut : _bPrometheus, _c©2025
300			_a267 pages _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"As data harvesting continues its exponential growth and computing power increases beyond what we can even imagine, AI and Big Data will be able to predict what we want for breakfast, what shoes we will buy, which political party we will vote for, and who we will fancy in a bar. Indeed, these deep-learning machines will know us better than we know ourselves. The day awaits when academia and big business will be able to quantify just how predictable each of us are. If indeed we are predictable like machines, to what extent are we alive, and under what definition? In The Human Test, quantum physicist Ron Folman unites findings from cognitive science, quantum physics, philosophy, and technology to offer a prescient look into this startling new era of human existence. If we are indeed found to be predictable, it will change everything we thought we knew about human nature. The Human Test strives for a new paradigm, and this new paradigm is found in human predictability. Existing monitors of general brain activity measure only very rudimentary aspects of the human experience, or what may be called human life; could the advent of a disruptive new technology bring about a much more insightful measure of who we are? While The Human Test describes a new and profound near-future impact of AI, it is rooted in a topic of paramount importance to humans: the enigma of consciousness and how it defines human life-or, what differentiates humans from all other life forms. Ultimately, The Human Test addresses some of the most fundamental questions about our species, starting with the most crucial: do we have free will, or are we merely machines? Fortunately, there is an antidote to predictability: creativity, that wondrous state of being original and inherently not predictable. Ultimately, Folman argues that if we can understand predictability, we can learn how to distance ourselves from it, and transcend to a purer idea of what human life should look like"-- Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aArtificial intelligence _xPhilosophy
650		0	_aConsciousness _xPhilosophy
650		0	_aPrediction (Psychology)
650		0	_aSocial prediction
650		0	_aQuantum theory
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
776	1		_iOnline version _aFolman, Ron, 1963- _tThe human test _dEssex, Connecticut: Prometheus, [2025] _w(DLC) 2024040525 _z9781493089215 _z9781493089208
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