书目

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

内容简介

ANewYorkTimesbestsellerSuperintelligenceasksthequestions：Whathappenswhenmachinessurpasshumansingeneralintelligence?Willartificialagentssaveordestroyus?NickBostromlaysthefoundationforunderstandingthefutureofhumanityandintelligentlife.Thehumanbrainhassomecapabilitiesthatthebrainsofotheranimalslack.Itistothesedistinctivecapabilitiesthatourspeciesowesitsdominantposition.Ifmachinebrainssurpassedhumanbrainsingeneralintelligence，thenthisnewsuperintelligencecouldbecomeextremelypowerful-possiblybeyondourcontrol.Asthefateofthegorillasnowdependsmoreonhumansthanonthespeciesitself，sowouldthefateofhumankinddependontheactionsofthemachinesuperintelligence.Butwehaveoneadvantage：wegettomakethefirstmove.WillitbepossibletoconstructaseedArtificialIntelligence，toengineerinitialconditionssoastomakeanintelligenceexplosionsurvivable?Howcouldoneachieveacontrolleddetonation?Thisprofoundlyambitiousandoriginalbookbreaksdownavasttrackofdifficultintellectualterrain.Afteranutterlyengrossingjourneythattakesustothefrontiersofthinkingaboutthehumanconditionandthefutureofintelligentlife，wefindinNickBostrom'sworknothinglessthanareconceptualizationoftheessentialtaskofourtime.

作者简介

NickBostromisProfessorintheFacultyofPhilosophyatOxfordUniversityandfoundingDirectoroftheFutureofHumanityInstituteandoftheProgramontheImpactsofFutureTechnologywithintheOxfordMartinSchool.Heistheauthorofsome200publications,includingAnthropicBias(Routledge,2002),GlobalCatastrophicRisks(ed.,OUP,2008),andHumanEnhancement(ed.,OUP,2009).HepreviouslytaughtatYale,andhewasaPostdoctoralFellowoftheBritishAcademy.Bostromhasabackgroundinphysics,computationalneuroscience,andmathematicallogicaswellasphilosophy.,,

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