Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
$55.44
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2014
Summary
The human brain possesses unique capabilities unmatched by other animals, which have propelled our species to a dominant position. While other creatures boast superior physical attributes, humans possess superior intellect. Should artificial superintelligence one day surpass human general intelligence, it could wield immense power. Just as the fate of gorillas now rests in human hands, humanity’s future could depend on the actions of a machine superintelligence.
However, we have the a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199678112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199678111 |
| Author: | Nick Bostrom |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 679g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 161mm x 240mm |
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Critics 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
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute 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 (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., 2009), and a forthcoming book on Superintelligence. 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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