num_pages: 322
description: In as little as a decade artificial intelligence could match then surpass human intelligence. Corporations &amp; government agencies around the world are pouring billions into achieving AIs Holy Grailhuman-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 &amp; more alien than we can imagine. Thru profiles of tech visionaries industry watchdogs &amp; 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 beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? Will they allow us to?
language: English
title: Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Press (NY)