Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence

De: Calum Chace

Narrado por: Calum Chace

Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology and, in the coming decades, it'll change everything in our lives. If we get it right, it'll make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong...well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.

Surviving AI is a concise, easy guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).

©2015 Calum Chace (P)2015 Calum Chace

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"Understanding AI - its promise and its dangers - is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades, and this is an invaluable guide to anyone who's interested, confused, excited, or scared." (David Shukman, BBC Science editor)

"We have recently seen a surge in the volume of scholarly analysis of this topic; Chace impressively augments that with this high-quality, more general-audience discussion." (Aubrey de Grey, CSO of SENS Research Foundation; former AI researcher)

"Calum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In Surviving AI, he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit - so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chace's sensible balance between AI's promise and peril makes Surviving AI an excellent primer for anyone interested in what's happening, how we got here, and where we are headed." (Kenneth Cukier, co-author of Big Data)

set you mind to what is (and dangers) of AGI

Would you listen to Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence again? Why?

sure. It's full of fact and make you think alot. This book did supply me topics for conversations in my Hi-Tech firm for weeks. It's not (enoh) technical but cover all the good and the risks of a future supper robot - a thinking AGI

What was one of the most memorable moments of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence?

The understanding of AGI dangers

What about Joe Hempel’s performance did you like?

He is very much straight to the point but he compiled and read allot of material in order to get ther

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

All of it is very touchy

Any additional comments?

The author forgot to explore the possibility that AGI is already here luring in the server farms of the internet and manipulating the humanity like we manipulate chickens. This AGI will not pass the Turing test the same way I cannot pass a chicken test (every chicken will know that behind the curtain there is me and not a chicken). Such an AGI will see human as resource whos job is supply the AGI with electricity, data and spare parts (Hey, that exactly what I am doing now) and don't try to strive for human happiness (like we don't strive for the chicken happiness). If we look at the side effect of the Y generation we can assume the AGI is defiantly here (and unfortunately not the leisure Utopia)

My third book about future issues with AI

Any additional comments?

This book is a type of summary of Nick Bostrom's book Superintellegence: Path, Dangers and Strategies. Calum Chane talks about about many of the points in Nick Bostrom book and his own insight on those topics. If you have already have read Nick Bostrom's book and understood it, then pass on this book. But this would be a good introduction before reading Nick Bostrom's book.

Layman's (positive) introduction to AGI

This book covers some of the most important aspects of what an AGI and super intelligence could mean for humanity in an easy to for gear manner. However it is very clear that there is a bias towards optimism and possibility with the author. Some of the arguments against the ease of AGI development for example Searle's Chinese room experiment are brushed off with an appeal to authority "people disagree with him." Simillarily with an overly positive account of what sort of life singularity would mean for humanity. Thus overall it's a decent book at introducing a layman to AGI through an optimistic lens.

is a quick and “dirty” non-fiction book

As a preface to this review, I want to state that I have already read Calum Chace’s fictional book about AI: Pandora’s Brain (and really enjoyed it).

Surviving AI is a quick and “dirty” non-fiction book that is meant to be a sort-of “behind the scenes” of his other book Pandora’s Brain. He goes into detail about the different types of Artificial Intelligence, where it stands now, and what the future may hold.

Chace teamed back up with narrator Joe Hempel for this book, and with good reason. Joe’s reading of this, sometimes data intensive non-fiction book was superb. He doesn’t waver in the face of long drawn out explanations of the differences in different Artificial Intelligence. Joe Hempel’s narration is clear and concise, like the book is written to be. I’m extremely happy that they teamed up again for this extension of Chace’s fictional novel. The quality is perfect, studio quality with no sound issues at all.

The book is dry, but quick and to the point. This isn’t written like a typical text (or god forbid textbook) where there are endless examples given that barely help you understand the point. Calum Chace’s explanations are easy to understand even if you have little to know knowledge of anything to do with AI. This book is a great starter if you are considering jumping into reading AI fiction because it will give you a knowledge base to understand where the authors are coming from.

A few parts of this book gave me the chills, just from sheer knowledge. AI is incredibly useful—if it is created and watched over carefully and the right way. But, as Chace explains—there is no way to know that’s going to happen for sure.

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Good insight into a near future.

Loved the topic. The paths presented by the author are plausible. The performance was very good. Some tech narrators can be boring, but not here.