"What do you think about machines that think?" This question - and other questions arising from it - are answered by scientists and popularizers of science, engineers and philosophers, science fiction writers and other people of art - almost two hundred intellectuals. Many of them are well known to the Russian reader: Steven Pinker, Lawrence Krauss, Frank Wilczek, Robert Sapolsky, Martin Rees, Sean Carroll, Nick Bostrom, Martin Seligman, Michael Shermer, Daniel Dennett, Mario Livio, Daniel Everett, John Markoff, Eric Topol, Seth Lloyd, Freeman Dyson, Carlo Rovelli? Their views on the subject are sometimes radically different, someone considers artificial intelligence a blessing, someone considers it evil, someone considers our inevitable future, someone considers it nonsense, and someone already existing reality. Such a variety of opinions will help the reader to form a holistic and comprehensive view of the problem.
