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Superintelligence Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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ISBN-10: 0199678111

ISBN-13: 9780199678112

Edition: 2014

Authors: Nick Bostrom

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Human beings occupy a dominant position on our planet, not because we have stronger muscles or sharper teeth than other species, but because we have smarter brains. Our brains developed the technologies and the complex social organization that make us powerful. For example, our smartness gaveus bulldozers and knives that are stronger and sharper than any animal's muscles or teeth.If machine brains come to surpass human brains as ours surpass those of other animals, the machine brains could become as powerful relative to us as we are to the other animals. Extreme levels of machine intelligence - superintelligence - would potentially be in a position to shape the future. Whathappens to…    
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Book details

List price: $38.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694

Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Program on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009). He previously taught at Yale, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy.