Surviving AI
By: Calum Chace
Publisher: Three Cs
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780993211621
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computers and civilization; Artificial Intelligence; Intelligence artificielle; Ordinateurs et civilisation
Other titles: Promise and peril of artificial intelligence
Description: Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong... well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome. Surviving AI is a concise, easy-to-read guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part one: ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence). AI in the past and present; title: Tomorrow's AT; title: From digital disruption to economic singularity; title: Part two: AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Can we make an AGI?; title: When might the first AGI arrive?; title: Part three: ASI (Artificial Superintelligence). Will AGI lead to superintelligence?; title: Will superintelligence be beneficial?; title: Part four: FAI (Friendly Artificial Intelligence). Can we ensure that superintelligence is "friendly"?; title: Conclusion: Surviving AI.