SUPERINTELLIGENCE
Author: Nick Bostrom
ISBN: 978-0198739838
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About This BookThe 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 one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survival? How could one achieve a controlled detonation? To get closer to an answer to this Question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. Read the book and learn about oracles, genies, singletons; about boxing methods, tripwires and mind crime; about humanity's cosmic endowment and differential technological development; indirect normativity, instrumental convergence, whole brain emulation and technology couplings; Malthusian economics and dystopian evolution; artificial intelligence and biological cognitive enhancement and collective intelligence. This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain. Yet the writing is so lucid that it somehow makes it all seem easy. 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. Read moreBook DetailsAuthor: Nick BostromPublisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (14 July 2016); Oxford University Press; productsafety@penguin.co.ukFormat: Paperback – 14 July 2016Language: EnglishPages: 432ISBN: 978-0198739838Dimensions: 13.01 x 2.29 x 19.47 cmWeight: 430 g
Browse this title within our Science and Technology collection. Edition details: Paperback – 14 July 2016, English, 415 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0198739838.
About the Author
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., OUP, 2009). He previously taught at Yale and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience and mathematical logic as well as philosophy.
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- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback – 14 July 2016
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- 978-0198739838
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- Oxford Univ Pr
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About This BookThe 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...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book if you enjoy ideas that stretch your imagination and challenge your assumptions. It takes you deep into the future of artificial intelligence and asks what happens when machines outthink humans. Clear, gripping, and unsettling in the best way, it helps you understand why AI safety matters today, not tomorrow. You’ll come away feeling smarter, more aware, and part of one of the most important conversations of our time.
- Published by Oxford Univ Pr.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 415.
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About This BookThe 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 one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or...
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