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Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2016
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-873983-8 (ISBN)
CHF 18,50 inkl. MwSt
This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? In a tour de force of analytic thinking, Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.
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.

Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre 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 (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009). 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.

Preface
1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities
2: Roads to Superintelligence
3: Forms of Superintelligence
4: Singularity Dynamics
5: Decisive Strategic Advantage
6: Intellectual Superpowers
7: The Superintelligent Will
8: Is the Default Outcome Doom?
9: The Control Problem
10: Oracles, Genies, Sovereigns, Tools
11: Multipolar Scenarios
12: Acquiring Values
13: Design Choices
14: The Strategic Picture
15: Nut-Cutting Time
Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo black and white line drawings and halftones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 195 mm
Gewicht 448 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Informatik Software Entwicklung User Interfaces (HCI)
Informatik Theorie / Studium Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-873983-4 / 0198739834
ISBN-13 978-0-19-873983-8 / 9780198739838
Zustand Neuware
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