A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence.In as … threaten our existence.
In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.
Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?
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A good read for a glimpse into a possible technological future we may want to shape now while we still can.
The author provides us with insight into the potential benefits and dangers with the next generation of ASI The author interviews scientists and experts in the field He quotes Eliezer Yudkowsky The AI does not hate you, nor does he love you,but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else Kevin Warwick writes We won’t really be …
Terrifying. Already seeing this appear in daily life.
Sobering. I wasn’t fond of the first part of the book, which sounded more like paranoid rantings of a nutcase than science (e.g., attributing human emotions such as anger to a computer; saying that AI would build spaceships to take over other planets; positing that AI would build a planet-size computer and take over the atoms from our bodies to …
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, by James Barrat is one of the most intriguing books I have read to date. This book came as a recommendation from a podcast that I subscribe to, so I decided to give it a read. I do not normally pursue books of this nature, because it is honestly not a topic I heavily get …
Very difficult for me to read. I was interested but I don’t think I am technical enough to fully get my hands around the concepts. Not the books fault, it was more me.
A hair-on-fire paranoid rant not really believable for anyone working in the field
I decided to.read Our Final Invention so I could learn more about AI. This book is terrifying because our outcome is all too real. This is a must read for everyone.
A good look at the scary side of AI development. A bit more alarmist than necessary, but if half of what Barrat writes about is true then it will be the “I told you so’s” who get the last laugh in the end as our ASI master uses us as parts.