I am a machine learning engineer, and I am very sympathetic to the concern of existential risk. Yudkowski asserts repeatedly that his arguments proceed from mathematical fact to lead to what is very close to certainty, analogously to how you can be close to certain that a lottery ticket will lose. The thing is, some..
excellent! I am reading it again. I want to remember this book and recomend it to everyone.
I think this is the first book review I have ever written. This was the fourth book I’ve read about AI. As I read it, I was impressed by the simplicity of its prose and its sound logic. I was also, however, terrified by what I read and struggled to maintain my normally positive outlook..
This is a well written intelligent book and there’s a lot in it I agree with, but two things I don’t. I think it’s true that, as they say, even a 20 year old chess program could, at least in the operational sense, be said to have wishes; in this case it would just be..
I learned, in laymen’s terms, how artificial general intelligence is being developed….and how dangerous it might be for our future. It just might be more dangerous for mankind than global thermonuclear war.
This book is one of the most important in our time, and if successful in its mission, will mark a point in time where attitudes changed and humanity was able to come together to avoid the existential threat of artificial super intelligence. May we all share this and live life well.
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Can’t believe what a collection of superb stories so well written and presented. Kept me going for weeks! Loved it all.
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The author did an excellent job of laying out how AI is “grown”, in a way that the layperson can make sense of it. The book does an even better job of illustrating how a truly ‘alien’ intellect would differ from us, and how this is what we would be facing with ASI. We only..
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This book lays out the case brilliantly, and might even motivate you to action in whatever way you can contribute to make disaster that little bit less likely.
Unmatched in intellect and easy to understand. This is a must read for every technology leader, politician and other leaders in society.