Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

Title

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Press (NY)

ISBN

9780312622374

Published

2013-10-01

Language

English

Genre

Science / General

Plats

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Author(s)

• James Barrat

Description

In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match, then surpass human intelligence. Corporations & government agencies around the world are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful & more alien than we can imagine. Thru profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs & groundbreaking AI systems, James Barrat's Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? Will they allow us to?