Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Ranked #1 in Artificial Intelligence, Ranked #4 in Singularity — see more rankings.
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful--possibly beyond our control. As the fate of the... more
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Maria Ramos CEO/Barclays AfricaRamos will take the summer to examine some of the questions weighing more heavily on humankind as we contemplate our collective future: what happens when we can write our own genetic codes, and what happens when we create technology that is meaningfully more intelligent than us. The Gene: An Intimate History—Siddhartha Mukherjee Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies—Nick Bostrom The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—Arundhati Roy (Source)
Will MacAskill I picked this book because the possibility of us developing human-level artificial intelligence, and from there superintelligence—an artificial agent that is considerably more intelligent than we are—is at least a contender for the most important issue in the next two centuries. Bostrom’s book has been very influential in effective altruism, lots of people work on artificial intelligence in order to ensure that it is developed safely. I don’t agree with the entire contents of the book, but there are many compelling arguments in it. It would be extremely overconfident to dismiss this book as... (Source)
Rankings by Category
Superintelligence is ranked in the following categories:
- #32 in Algorithms
- #21 in Big Data
- #39 in Computer
- #22 in Computer Science
- #58 in Data Science
- #5 in Deep Learning
- #13 in Futurism
- #64 in IT
- #25 in Information Technology
- #17 in Intelligence
- #27 in Interactions
- #10 in Machine Learning
- #59 in Philosophy Of Science
- #10 in Robotics
- #77 in Scientific
- #31 in Tech
- #12 in Technology
- #7 in Utilitarianism
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