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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (Paperback, 2016)

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This book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom, is a captivating read. It delves into the subject area of assessment with a focus on social sciences and computer science. Published by Oxford University Press in 2016, this textbook is available in paperback format and English language. The item has a height of 195mm, width of 130mm and weighs 448g. It has 432 pages and is categorized under Books, Comics & Magazines, Textbooks, Education & Reference, and Adult Learning & University. Get your hands on this informative book today and delve into the intriguing world of Superintelligence!

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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.

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Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780198739838
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Subject Area
Assessment
Author
Nick Bostrom
Publication Name
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Computer Science
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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195mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
448g

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Nick Bostrom
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United Kingdom

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by petite_dragon25 Oct, 2018
Extremely detailed and well written
I cannot think of any angle this book doesn't cover. It's an important read, as we move into an AI heavy world. Requires attention, as the language is sometimes technical and goes into great depth. Or you can just skip some of the parts. Compelling, and sometimes depressing, but critical to understand, arguments
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by pecobeco15 Jun, 2016
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The topic of the book is very interesting, but it is written with a lot of detailed. All this detailed can make some readers bored.
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