Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence

By:

Tegmark, Max

Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2018Description: xii, 364 p. : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9780141981802

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WLM 310.

Summary: AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god? Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max Tegmark, the MIT professor whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial, separates myths from reality, utopias from dystopias, to explore the next phase of our existence. How can we grow our prosperity through automation, without leaving people lacking income or purpose? How can we ensure that future AI systems do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will AI help life flourish as never before, or will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, and even, perhaps, replace us altogether?

List(s) this item appears in: SLaM Artificial intelligence & human identity books

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	People & planet	ZZ 3 TEG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		023502

First published in United States : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First published in London : Allen Lane, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-347) and index.

AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god?

Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max Tegmark, the MIT professor whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial, separates myths from reality, utopias from dystopias, to explore the next phase of our existence.

How can we grow our prosperity through automation, without leaving people lacking income or purpose? How can we ensure that future AI systems do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will AI help life flourish as never before, or will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, and even, perhaps, replace us altogether?

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