Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501227742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 455 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He previously taught at Yale, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. 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). Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as we
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. 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. 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?This profoundly ambitious and original audiobook breaks down a vast track of difficult intellectual terrain. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. 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.
Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. 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 I’ve seen on this topic. It is well worth a read." - Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator and Co-Chairman of OpenAI. Human civilisation is at stake." --Clive Cookson, Financial Times "Worth reading. "I highly recommend this book" --Bill Gates "Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case tha
"Superintelligence Threat vs Robot Society Threat (and an Oversight Concerning NLP)" according to migedy. 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 never really examined in any detail.When I was a graduate student in the early 80s, studying for my PhD in AI, I came upon c. It's complicated 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 smart in ways well beyond our comprehension, possibly driven by goals we can't understand and acting in ways that may cause . Sometimes friends over a beer philosophizing, sometimes clever analogies Mario Schlosser 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 artificial intelligence starts developing super-intelligence, and how we should deal with it. So, conceptually cool. But practi