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Hardcover | Pages: 328 pages Rating: 3.87 | 11970 Users | 1189 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies |
| ISBN: | 0199678111 (ISBN13: 9780199678112) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Superintelligence asks the questions: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful--possibly beyond our control. 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. 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 as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation?Identify About Books Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
| Title | : | Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies |
| Author | : | Nick Bostrom |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 328 pages |
| Published | : | September 3rd 2014 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published July 3rd 2014) |
| Categories | : | Science. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Technology. Artificial Intelligence. Computer Science. Psychology |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 11970 Users | 1189 ReviewsColumn About Books Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Hypothetical enough to become insanely dumb boring. Superintelligence, hyperintelligence, hypersuperintelligence Basically, it all amounts to the fact that maybe, sometime, the ultimate thinking machines will do or not so something. Just how new is that idea? IMO, the main point is how do we get them there? Designing intuition? Motivating the AI? Motivational scaffolding? Associative value accretion? While it's all very entertaining, it's nowhere near practical at this point. And the barebonedSuperintelligence by Nick Bostrom is a hard book to recommend, but is one that thoroughly covers its subject. Superintelligence is a warning against developing artificial intelligence (AI). However, the writing is dry and systematic, more like Plato than Wired Magazine. There are few real world examples, because it's not a history of AI, but theoretic conjectures. The book explores the possible issues we might face if a superintelligent machine or life form is created. I would have enjoyed the
81st book for 2018.In brilliant fashion Bostrom systematically examines how a super-intelligence arise over the coming decades, and what humanity might do to avoid disaster. Bottom-line: Not much. 4-stars.
Is the surface of our planet -- and maybe every planet we can get our hands on -- going to be carpeted in paper clips (and paper clip factories) by a well-intentioned but misguided artificial intelligence (AI) that ultimately cannibalizes everything in sight, including us, in single-minded pursuit of a seemingly innocuous goal? Nick Bostrom, head of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, thinks that we can't guarantee it _won't_ happen, and it worries him. It doesn't require Skynet and
Imagine a Danger (You may say I'm a Dreamer)Bostrom is here to imagine a world for us (and he has batshit crazy imagination, have to give him that). The world he imagines is a post-AI world or at least a very-near-to-AI world or a nascent-AI world. Dont expect to know how we will get there - only what to do if we get there and how to skew the road to getting there to our advantage. And there are plenty of wild ideas on how things will pan out in that world-in-transition, the routes bit - Bostrom
More detail than I needed on the subject, but I might rue that statement when the android armies are swarming Manhattan. JK... for now.
I switched to the audio version of this book after struggling with the Kindle edition since I needed to read this for a book club. If you are looking for a book on artificial intelligence (AI), avoid this and opt for Jeff Hawkins' book "On Intelligence" written by someone who has devoted their life to the field. If it is one on "AI gone bad" you seek, try 2001 Space Odyssey. For a fictional approach on AI that helped set the groundwork for AI theory, go for Isaac Asimov. If you want a tedious,
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