Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (English) Paperbac

Description: Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? In a tour de force of analytic thinking, Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 thanon 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 thefirst 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 humanitys cosmic endowment anddifferential 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 Bostroms work nothing less than areconceptualization of the essential task of our time. Notes What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? This tour de force of analytic thinking is a New York Times bestseller, and lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. Novel concepts and terminology are explained, making this also suitable for the general reader. Author Biography 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 aPostdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy. Table of Contents Preface1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities2: Roads to Superintelligence3: Forms of Superintelligence4: Singularity Dynamics5: Decisive Strategic Advantage6: Intellectual Superpowers7: The Superintelligent Will8: Is the Default Outcome Doom?9: The Control Problem10: Oracles, Genies, Sovereigns, Tools11: Multipolar Scenarios12: Acquiring Values13: Design Choices14: The Strategic Picture15: Nut-Cutting TimeAfterword Review `[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 Promotional Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. Long Description 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 thanon 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 thefirst 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 humanitys cosmic endowment anddifferential 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 Bostroms work nothing less than areconceptualization of the essential task of our time. Review Text `[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 Review Quote "I highly recommend this book" --Bill Gates Feature New York Times bestsellerOriginal material based on new researchWritten by one of the leaders in the fieldNovel concepts and terminology will be explained making it suitable for the general reader Details ISBN0198739834 Author Nick Bostrom Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2016 ISBN-10 0198739834 ISBN-13 9780198739838 Format Paperback Short Title SUPERINTELLIGENCE Language English Media Book Birth 1973 Pages 432 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Paths, Dangers, Strategies Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 006.3 Affiliation Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School and Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford Publication Date 2016-04-14 UK Release Date 2016-04-14 NZ Release Date 2016-04-14 Illustrations black and white line drawings and halftones Alternative 9780199678112 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2016-03-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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