Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

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Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.
Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence.
In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.
Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?
“If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we’ll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.” —The Washington Post
“Science fiction has long explored the implications of humanlike machines (think of Asimov’s I, Robot), but Barrat’s thoughtful treatment adds a dose of reality.” —Science News
“A dark new book . . . lays out a strong case for why we should be at least a little worried.” —The New Yorker
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CQYAWRY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Dunne Books
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 4, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.0 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781250032263
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250032263
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #281,290 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #52 in Human-Computer Interaction (Kindle Store) #259 in General Technology & Reference #270 in Computer History & Culture (Books)
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