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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
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Description for Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Paperback. 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: 390 pages, black and white line drawings and halftones. BIC Classification: PDR; PDZ; UYQ; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
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. ... 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198739838
SKU
V9780198739838
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About Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre 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., ... Read more
Reviews for Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Every intelligent person should read it.
Nils Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Stanford University
A damn hard read
Sunday Telegraph
Worth reading.... We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes
Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
There is no doubting the force of [Bostrom's] arguments the problem is a ... Read more
Nils Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Stanford University
A damn hard read
Sunday Telegraph
Worth reading.... We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes
Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
There is no doubting the force of [Bostrom's] arguments the problem is a ... Read more