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What will be the economic, military, and social consequences of the emergence of artificial intelligence.

Topic

Sci-fi, futurology, technology, artificial intelligence.

About the book

During its existence, life on Earth has transformed several times - from bacteria, whose development is completely encoded in DNA, to more complex organisms and finally humans, who have a choice and adapt almost instantly to a new environment. This flexibility has allowed humanity to dominate the Earth. But despite significant breakthroughs - language, writing, printing press, modern science, computers - all life forms we know remain hostage to their biological shell. The next stage is the era of artificial intelligence, Life 3.0, which will free itself from the biological shackles of evolution and become the master of its own destiny.

Who is the book for

The book is for anyone interested in the development of technology, robotics, in particular, the introduction of artificial intelligence into all spheres of society and the possible consequences of this process for humanity.

Why this book

In this book, Professor Max Tegmark analyses the economic, legal, military and social consequences of the emergence of artificial intelligence and what this technology will bring to humanity.

About the author

Max Tegmark is a professor at MIT and one of the most respected researchers in artificial intelligence. His Institute for the Future of Life received a $10 million grant from Elon Musk to study the possible consequences of artificial intelligence.

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Reviews

"It's not just scientists, industrialists, or the military who should be asking themselves: «What can we do to increase the chances of benefiting from artificial intelligence and reduce the risks?', but also all people. This is one of the most important discussions of our time."

Stephen Hawking, renowned astrophysicist

"This is a true guide to the challenges and choices facing people seeking a grand future, consciousness and intelligence on Earth and beyond."

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Quotes

On the fear of the emergence of AI

"The fear of machines becoming conscious is another distraction. The real cause for concern is not malicious intent, but competence. By definition, a super-intelligent AI is very good at achieving its goals, whatever they may be, so we need to align its goals with ours. You may not be an ant hater and you may not trample on insects for no reason, but if you are tasked with building a hydroelectric power plant and an ant hill is found in the area designated for flooding, the ants will have to say goodbye to their lives. The movement for beneficial AI wants to prevent a situation where humanity finds itself in the shoes of these ants."

On the difficulty of tasks for computers

"It is natural for us to rank the difficulty of tasks based on how hard they are for us humans. But this can give a false impression of how difficult they are for computers. We may think it's much harder to multiply 314,159 by 271,828 than to recognise a friend in a photograph, but computers have been leapfrogging us in arithmetic since long before I was born, and human-level image recognition has only recently become possible. The fact that low-level sensorimotor tasks seem easy, even though they require huge computing resources, is known as the Moravec paradox. It is explained by the fact that our brains create the illusion of ease of such tasks because they allocate a huge amount of specialised hardware to them - in fact, more than a quarter of our mental capacity."