Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos. |
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... figure 1.1 . It's still an open question how , when and where life first appeared in our Universe , but there is strong evidence that here on Earth life first appeared about 4 billion years ago . Before long , our planet was teeming ...
... figure 1.1 . It's still an open question how , when and where life first appeared in our Universe , but there is strong evidence that here on Earth life first appeared about 4 billion years ago . Before long , our planet was teeming ...
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... Figure 1.1 : The three stages of life : biological evolution , cultural evolution and tech- nological evolution . Life 1.0 is unable to redesign either its hardware or its software during its lifetime : both are determined by its DNA ...
... Figure 1.1 : The three stages of life : biological evolution , cultural evolution and tech- nological evolution . Life 1.0 is unable to redesign either its hardware or its software during its lifetime : both are determined by its DNA ...
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... figure 1.2 , I think of them as digital utopians , techno- skeptics and members of the beneficial - AI movement , respectively . Please let me introduce you to some of their most eloquent champions . Digital Utopians When I was a kid ...
... figure 1.2 , I think of them as digital utopians , techno- skeptics and members of the beneficial - AI movement , respectively . Please let me introduce you to some of their most eloquent champions . Digital Utopians When I was a kid ...
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... Figure 1.2 : Most controversies surrounding strong artificial intelligence ( that can match humans on any cognitive task ) center around two questions : When ( if ever ) will it happen , and will it be a good thing for humanity ? Techno ...
... Figure 1.2 : Most controversies surrounding strong artificial intelligence ( that can match humans on any cognitive task ) center around two questions : When ( if ever ) will it happen , and will it be a good thing for humanity ? Techno ...
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... figure out how quarks work , suggested that we start by writing an op - ed to draw attention to the issue and make it harder to ignore . I reached out to Stuart Rus- sell ( whom I hadn't yet met ) and to my physics colleague Stephen ...
... figure out how quarks work , suggested that we start by writing an op - ed to draw attention to the issue and make it harder to ignore . I reached out to Stuart Rus- sell ( whom I hadn't yet met ) and to my physics colleague Stephen ...
Contents
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Matter Turns Intelligent | 49 |
Breakthroughs Bugs Laws Weapons and Jobs | 82 |
Intelligence Explosion? | 134 |
The Next 10000 Years | 161 |
The Next Billion Years and Beyond | 203 |
Goals | 249 |
Consciousness | 281 |
The Tale of the FLI Team | 316 |
Notes | 337 |
Index | 349 |
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