The Resource Our final invention : artificial intelligence and the end of the human era, James Barrat
Our final invention : artificial intelligence and the end of the human era, James Barrat
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- Artificial intelligence (AI) 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 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 that we can imagine. Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, this book 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?
- "The Internet is usually considered a breakthrough in technological--and even social--progress. The promises that it holds for our future are discussed in terms of an Utopian vision--intelligent, helpful robots; enhanced brain function; disease-and-famine ridding nanotechnology, and other positive benefits. But there's another, rarely discussed and far darker possibility. As Our Final Invention argues, we may be racing towards our own annihilation, as the military, academia, and corporate advances in artificial intelligence may lead to an uncontrollable new lifeform far smarter and more powerful than we can imagine. Advanced artificial intelligence might seem like a far-out science fiction story, but it is actually far closer than most of us realize. Bringing together the ideas of experts in a thoroughly accessible way and exposing the dark side to the vision presented in The Singularity is Near, Our Final Invention explores how the convergence of current developments in technology may lead to a catastrophic outcome within the next few years"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Contents
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- The busy child
- The two-minute problem
- Looking into the future
- The hard way
- Programs that write programs
- Four basic drives
- The intelligence explosion
- The point of no return
- The law of accelerating returns
- The Singularitarian
- A hard takeoff
- The last complication
- Unknowable by nature
- The end of the human era
- The cyber ecosystem
- AGI 2.0
- Isbn
- 9780312622374
- Label
- Our final invention : artificial intelligence and the end of the human era
- Title
- Our final invention
- Title remainder
- artificial intelligence and the end of the human era
- Statement of responsibility
- James Barrat
- Subject
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- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificiell intelligens
- COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
- COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects | Human-Computer Interaction
- Evolución humana
- Gesellschaft
- Human engineering
- Human engineering
- Human evolution
- Anthropotechnik
- Human-computer interaction
- Human-computer interaction
- Ingeniería humana
- Inteligencia artificial
- Interacción hombre-computadora
- Künstliche Intelligenz
- Mensch
- Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
- Zukunft
- Human evolution
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Artificial intelligence (AI) 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 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 that we can imagine. Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, this book 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?
- "The Internet is usually considered a breakthrough in technological--and even social--progress. The promises that it holds for our future are discussed in terms of an Utopian vision--intelligent, helpful robots; enhanced brain function; disease-and-famine ridding nanotechnology, and other positive benefits. But there's another, rarely discussed and far darker possibility. As Our Final Invention argues, we may be racing towards our own annihilation, as the military, academia, and corporate advances in artificial intelligence may lead to an uncontrollable new lifeform far smarter and more powerful than we can imagine. Advanced artificial intelligence might seem like a far-out science fiction story, but it is actually far closer than most of us realize. Bringing together the ideas of experts in a thoroughly accessible way and exposing the dark side to the vision presented in The Singularity is Near, Our Final Invention explores how the convergence of current developments in technology may lead to a catastrophic outcome within the next few years"--
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barrat, James
- Dewey number
- 303.48/34
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q335
- LC item number
- .B377 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Artificial intelligence
- Human-computer interaction
- Human engineering
- Human evolution
- COMPUTERS
- COMPUTERS
- Artificial intelligence
- Human-computer interaction
- Human engineering
- Human evolution
- Anthropotechnik
- Gesellschaft
- Künstliche Intelligenz
- Mensch
- Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
- Zukunft
- Artificiell intelligens
- Inteligencia artificial
- Interacción hombre-computadora
- Ingeniería humana
- Evolución humana
- Label
- Our final invention : artificial intelligence and the end of the human era, James Barrat
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-310) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- The busy child -- The two-minute problem -- Looking into the future -- The hard way -- Programs that write programs -- Four basic drives -- The intelligence explosion -- The point of no return -- The law of accelerating returns -- The Singularitarian -- A hard takeoff -- The last complication -- Unknowable by nature -- The end of the human era -- The cyber ecosystem -- AGI 2.0
- Control code
- ocn827256597
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312622374
- Lccn
- 2013017971
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780312622374
- (OCoLC)827256597
- Label
- Our final invention : artificial intelligence and the end of the human era, James Barrat
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-310) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The busy child -- The two-minute problem -- Looking into the future -- The hard way -- Programs that write programs -- Four basic drives -- The intelligence explosion -- The point of no return -- The law of accelerating returns -- The Singularitarian -- A hard takeoff -- The last complication -- Unknowable by nature -- The end of the human era -- The cyber ecosystem -- AGI 2.0
- Control code
- ocn827256597
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312622374
- Lccn
- 2013017971
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780312622374
- (OCoLC)827256597
Subject
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificiell intelligens
- COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
- COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects | Human-Computer Interaction
- Evolución humana
- Gesellschaft
- Human engineering
- Human engineering
- Human evolution
- Anthropotechnik
- Human-computer interaction
- Human-computer interaction
- Ingeniería humana
- Inteligencia artificial
- Interacción hombre-computadora
- Künstliche Intelligenz
- Mensch
- Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
- Zukunft
- Human evolution
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