Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Book
No Media

This item doesn’t have any media yet

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

2016 | Computing & IT

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 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 survivable? 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.



Published by Oxford University Press

Edition Unknown
ISBN 9780198739838
Language N/A

Images And Data Courtesy Of: Oxford University Press.
This content (including text, images, videos and other media) is published and used in accordance with Fair Use.

Post Type

Hidden Post

Archived Post

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies reviews from people you don't follow
40x40

Elon Musk recommended (curated)

 
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom | 2016 | Computing & IT
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes."

Source
  
40x40

Sam Harris recommended (curated)

 
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom | 2016 | Computing & IT
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

""The clearest book I’ve come across that makes the case that the so-called ‘control problem’ — the problem of building human-level and beyond artificial intelligence that we can control, that we can know in advance will converge with our interests — is a truly difficult and important task, because we will end up building this stuff by happenstance if we simply keep going in the direction we’re headed. Unless we can solve this problem in advance and have good reason to believe that the machines we are building are benign and their behavior predictable — even when they exceed us in intelligence a thousand-, a million-, or a billion-fold — this is going to be a catastrophic intrusion into our lives that we may not survive.""

Source