Superintelligence
paths, dangers, strategies
$29.49
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2016
Summary
Superintelligence: Navigating the Perilous Path to Artificial Dominance
The human brain’s unique capabilities have propelled our species to a position of dominance. But what happens when machine brains surpass our own in general intelligence? This new superintelligence could wield immense power, shaping our fate as we now shape that of gorillas.
We possess a crucial advantage: the first move. Can we engineer initial conditions, construct a “seed AI,” to ensure a survivable i…
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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