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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
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Description for Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Hardback. This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? In a tour de force of analytic thinking, Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. Num Pages: 352 pages, black and white line drawings and halftones. BIC Classification: GPQD; JFFR; UYQ; UYQM; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 672.
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. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. But we have ... Read more
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. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. But we have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199678112
SKU
V9780199678112
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About Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, ... Read more
Reviews for Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Worth reading.
Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
I highly recommend this book
Bill Gates
very deep ... every paragraph has like six ideas embedded within it.
Nate Silver
Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. ... Read more
Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
I highly recommend this book
Bill Gates
very deep ... every paragraph has like six ideas embedded within it.
Nate Silver
Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. ... Read more