Superintelligence
paths, dangers, strategies
$30.39
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2016
Summary
The human brain possesses capabilities that are absent in the brains of other animals, and it is these unique abilities that have led to our species’ dominant position. While other animals may boast stronger muscles or sharper claws, humanity’s advantage lies in its superior intellect. Should machine brains one day surpass human intelligence in general capabilities, this nascent superintelligence could wield immense power. Just as the fate of gorillas now rests more on human actions than thei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198739838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198739834 |
| Author: | Nick Bostrom |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 448g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 23mm |
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“I highly recommend this book” –Bill Gates
`[A] magnificent conception … it ought to be required reading on all philosophy undergraduate courses, by anyone attempting to build AIs and by physicists who think there is no point to philosophy.‘Brian Clegg, Popular Science
About The Author
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., 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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