Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
Here is my highly-condensed version of the book’s argument, which I find convincing. We are a long way off from solving what’s known as the alignment problem. If anyone released artificial superindulgence into the world using anything like our current process, it would almost certainly be misaligned with The interests of humankind. Artificial super intelligence..
You may read this book, and find that you don’t completely agree with it. That is ok. I would be shocked however, if you somehow read this book and felt that the current state of affairs around AI development is acceptable. Everyone should be able to agree, given the points made in this book, that..
This book deserves to be listened to twice, The first time to build a basic understanding of the problem and the second time (once you get over being temporarily stunned by fear) to try to understand it better so as to try explain it to others and then act. The narration is excellent.
Few people realize how insane the current AI situation is — companies are racing to try to make minds smarter than all current people (they are spending more than $100B/yr on it, and more each year); experts, and company leaders, *say* this effort has a more than 10% chance of causing human extinction; and …..
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
Wow !!! This changed my mind on this and I am a definite convert! Elegantly written.
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
The book presents the issue to the general public in interesting and understandable way. They give concrete, relatable examples of high probability devastating outcomes. I highly recommend it.
There are things I didn’t like about this book. There are things in the book I disagree with. I’m giving it 5 stars anyway because it’s the first book I’ve read that doesn’t mince words about the reality of the situation. The title may sound like hyperbole, but the thesis of the book is undeniable:..
If you’re an analytical person you’ll likely enjoy the writing style, but there are times when literally was flabbergasted at the number of words wasted on describing something ancillary to the point of the book — 20 solid minutes explain how controlled nuclear fission works to set up brief metaphor. It’s the kind of thing..
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
I’ve been working in the AI space for over three decades and this was a difficult book to actually read all the way through. Not because the content was disturbing and scary, but rather because the arguments rely completely on fictional story telling. There clearly are real risks to the current unfettered AI race accelerating..
One measure of the value of a book is the number of points in it where I think to myself, “That’s a great argument / example / parable; I look forward to including it in my own conversations with people in the future”. On that score, IABIED is among the best books I’ve ever read…