Love it or hate it, it’s an engrossing forecast. His call for strong controls on AI systems sits awkwardly beside his acknowledgment that controlling such godlike entities will be almost impossible. Tegmark’s smart, freewheeling discussion leads to fascinating speculations on AI-based civilizations spanning galaxies and eons-and knotty questions: Will our digital overlords be conscious? Will they coddle us with abundance and virtual-reality idylls or exterminate us with bumblebee-size attack robots? While digerati may be enthralled by the idea of superintelligent civilizations where “beautiful theorems” serve as the main economic resource, Tegmark’s future will strike many as a one in which, at best, humans are dependent on AI-powered technology and, at worst, are extinct. MIT physicist Tegmark ( Our Mathematical Universe) surveys advances in artificial intelligence such as self-driving cars and Jeopardy-winning software, but focuses on the looming prospect of “recursive self-improvement”-AI systems that build smarter versions of themselves at an accelerating pace until their intellects surpass ours. Knopf, 2017 - Science - 364 pages 7 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. The robot takeover will ignite an explosion of “awe-inspiring” life even if humans don’t survive, according to this exhilarating, demoralizing primer. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark Alfred A. Max Tegmark is an MIT professor who who loves thinking about lifes big questions, and has authored 2 books and more than 200 technical papers on topics from cosmology to artificial intelligence.
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