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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (vuoden 2015 painos)

Tekijä: James Barrat (Tekijä)

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"Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smart phone, it has the run of your house, 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. Though primitive today, 'intelligent' computer systems double in speed and power each year. 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, 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 computers whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And more to the point: will they allow us to?"-- "The Internet is usually considered a breakthrough in technological--and even social--progress. The promises that it holds for our future are discussed in terms of an utopian vision--intelligent, helpful robots; enhanced brain function; disease-and-famine ridding nanotechnology, and other positive benefits. But there's another, rarely discussed and far darker possibility. As Our Final Invention argues, we may be racing towards our own annihilation, as the military, academia, and corporate advances in artificial intelligence may lead to an uncontrollable new lifeform far smarter and more powerful than we can imagine. Advanced artificial intelligence might seem like a far-out science fiction story, but it is actually far closer than most of us realize. Bringing together the ideas of experts in a thoroughly accessible way and exposing the dark side to the vision presented in The Singularity is Near, Our Final Invention explores how the convergence of current developments in technology may lead to a catastrophic outcome within the next few years"--… (lisätietoja)

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Jäsen:	rickmac45
Teoksen nimi:	Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
Kirjailijat:	James Barrat (Tekijä)
Info:	St. Martin's Griffin (2015), Edition: Reprint, 336 pages
Kokoelmat:	Audio Book, Read
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Avainsanoja:	AI, computers, science

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This is hands down the most depressing book I've ever read. James Barrat, the author of "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era" levels some pretty serious charges against the designers and engineers of artificial intelligence in this creepy book. He believes that unstoppable artificial intelligence will in the near future commandeer the resources of our society -- possibly even the galaxy -- to perpetuate themselves at the expense of humanity, biology, even the knitting of the universe. Marshalling his evidence he speaks to some of the leaders in the artificial intelligence community and some of their harshest critics. The intelligent bots are being designed to improve their own efficiency, protect themselves from intrusion, and gather whatever resources they deem necessary for their autonomous growth. There is a worldwide race, Barrat writes, to ascend the heights of artificial superintelligence (ASI) to commercialize it and/or develop it for "defence" purposes. And while he fears the people who want to control it, he is more concerned that the designers are more likely to build serious flaws into it, the biggest being that they will not be "friendly" to creatures of lesser intelligence, i.e. humans. Imagine a world where your own molecules become grist for the mill. The part of this book I found most annoying was that it was pretty persuasive. (

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MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 |

This should have been a 25-page essay, not a book-length stretching of a thin premise. Shame on the editors who allow dross like this. Most maddening was the redundancy of the definitions of AGI, ASI, and the theory of an intelligence explosion. Well into the book, I continued to shout, "I get it already!" Plus, there's really only one outcome that is stretched in a pessimist-sensationalist manner: namely, AI will, via feedback loop, or self-improving recursion, propel itself to ASI and become so intelligent that we will become extinct (because it will outsmart us and probably repurpose our atoms). There are more outcomes to a loop, especially one that aims to achieve the highest level of intelligence (in my view, this would never be satisfied, thus resulting in an infinite loop; but that is given passing glance at best). While I do advocate public awareness of the state and dangers of AI development, my advice for this book is to read the intro and chapter one via Amazon preview. That's virtually the whole book. (

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chrisvia | Apr 29, 2021 |

Artificial Intelligence is a topic that should be addressed now, before it gets out of hands. This book gives you a clear insight into the world of AI development and its (probable) consequence. A foolish race to develop superintelligence is happening all over the globe and it could be our last. We have learned nothing from history. (

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jakatomc | Dec 30, 2020 |

Artificial intelligence; just the phrase brings a number of things to mind. Probably the best known is Siri, that cute, slightly funny app that lives on your iPhone, but AI is now embedded in all sorts of things now, from the programmes that high frequency traders use to buy and sell share, the software in drones and the computer systems in cars. Until now it has been very low level stuff, but it is the goal of some to make that machine that can pass the Turing test and seem, as they said in Blade Runner, more human than human.

Even thought the human species is not the fastest, strongest or deadliest, our intelligence coupled with our adaptability has meant that we have managed to clamber to the top. Now we have created AI. This has the potential to bring huge benefits to our lives and world, or be the last thing that we ever invent. There is a lot of research taking place into this, until now most has been funded by DARPA, but now a lot of technology companies, such as Google, have started their own research teams. These systems have normally used pure logic, if this, then do that, but the newer ones use human style learning based on designs taken from the neural maps of brains. These systems are beginning to become capable of learning from their mistakes and adapting the logic to perform better next time. This is fine for a device that has a single task, i.e. playing chess, but when this is used for a more general AI then we may start to have problems.

In this book Barrat takes us through the research, meeting people who have grave concerns about the potential threat that AI could bring to humanity. It is a measured piece of writing, making us aware, without getting hysterical or being anti technology. Whilst we are not heading to a Skynet type scenario, there is the problem of interconnectivity. Rogue AI, such as viruses and malware can and will bring down infrastructure such as power supply networks one day, we see DNS attacks on companies, mass collection of personal data and rogue states attacking others over the internet.

It is a timely reminder that some of our creations have implications that are much further reaching that we ever could anticipate. Well worth reading, but a little bit frightening! (

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"Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smart phone, it has the run of your house, 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. Though primitive today, 'intelligent' computer systems double in speed and power each year. 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, 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 computers whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And more to the point: will they allow us to?"-- "The Internet is usually considered a breakthrough in technological--and even social--progress. The promises that it holds for our future are discussed in terms of an utopian vision--intelligent, helpful robots; enhanced brain function; disease-and-famine ridding nanotechnology, and other positive benefits. But there's another, rarely discussed and far darker possibility. As Our Final Invention argues, we may be racing towards our own annihilation, as the military, academia, and corporate advances in artificial intelligence may lead to an uncontrollable new lifeform far smarter and more powerful than we can imagine. Advanced artificial intelligence might seem like a far-out science fiction story, but it is actually far closer than most of us realize. Bringing together the ideas of experts in a thoroughly accessible way and exposing the dark side to the vision presented in The Singularity is Near, Our Final Invention explores how the convergence of current developments in technology may lead to a catastrophic outcome within the next few years"--

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