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Doesn't have much new if you've followed the AI risk field closely, but an okay overview if you haven't. A lot of the discussion felt rather abstract, however (even moreso than usual in these conversations), and I got the feeling that a newcomer might not be left very convinced about e.g. the thesis that a superintelligence really has a good chance of taking over the world by itself.
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A book about the coming (soon or in decades) super-intelligences, either by whole-brain emulation (with improvement), or through artificial intelligence (AI).
Similar in subject to Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, this book discusses the strategies for developing such a super-intelligence (and whether we should do so at all), the various possible consequences, and the control problem (ie., how can we control the super intelligence to not do something huma ...more
Similar in subject to Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, this book discusses the strategies for developing such a super-intelligence (and whether we should do so at all), the various possible consequences, and the control problem (ie., how can we control the super intelligence to not do something huma ...more
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