Our Final Invention
Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by James Barrat
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Pub Date Oct 01 2013 | Archive Date Apr 15 2016
St. Martin's Press | Thomas Dunne Books
Description
Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of 5 books everyone should read about the future
A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013
Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence.
In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies 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, and more alien than we can imagine.
Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, 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? And will they allow us to?
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"A hard-hitting book about the most important topic of this century and
possibly beyond -- the issue of whether our species can survive. I wish it was
science fiction but I know it's not."—Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of
Skype
“The compelling story of humanity's most critical challenge. A
Silent Spring for the twenty-first century.”
—Michael Vassar, former
President, Singularity Institute
“Barrat's book is excellently written
and deeply researched. It does a great job of communicating to general readers
the danger of mistakes in AI design and implementation.” —Bill Hibbard, author
of Super-Intelligent Machines
"An important and disturbing book."
—Huw Price, co-founder, Cambridge University Center for the Study of Existential
Risk
“Our Final Invention is a
thrilling detective story, and also the best book yet written on the most
important problem of the twenty-first century.” —Luke Muehlhauser, Executive
Director, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
“Enthusiasts dominate
observers of progress in artificial intelligence; the minority who disagree are
alarmed, articulate and perhaps growing in numbers, and Barrat delivers a
thoughtful account of their worries.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780312622374 |
| PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |
