Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501227742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 443 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. "I highly recommend this book" --Bill Gates "Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. Human civilisation is at stake." --Clive Cookson, Financial Times "Worth reading. Potentially more dangerous than nukes" --Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla "Every intelligent person should read it." --Nils Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Stanford University "Nick Bostrom’s excellent book “Superintelligence” is the best thing
migedy said Superintelligence Threat vs Robot Society Threat (and an Oversight Concerning NLP). Prof. Bostrom has written a book that I believe will become a classic within that subarea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerned with the existential dangers that could threaten humanity as the result of the development of artificial forms of intelligence.What fascinated me is that Bostrom has approached the existential danger of AI from a perspective that, although I am an AI professor, I had. "It's complicated" according to Cthulhu. Not surprisingly, 200+ pages later, the author can't answer the 'what is to be done' question concerning the likely emergence of non-human (machine-based) super-intelligence, sometime, possibly soon. This is expected because, as a species, we've always been the smartest ones around and never had to even think about the possibility of coexistence alongside something or someone impossibly smart and. Sometimes friends over a beer philosophizing, sometimes clever analogies I love the general idea of evaluating the potential perils of artificial super intelligence, and I buy into the concept of thinking this through at an abstract level, not tied to the current state of AI algorithms in today's computer science. That's what this book does - systematically explore every branch of a pretty large decision tree around everything that could or could not happen when an ar
As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful—possibly beyond our control. After an utterly engrossing journey that takes us to the frontiers of thinking about the human condition and the future of intelligent life, we find in Nick Bostrom's work nothing less than a reconceptualization of the essential task of our time.. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so a
Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (Ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (Ed., OUP, 2009). He previously taught at Yale, and he was