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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: AI could be the future of life, but it remains a deeply divisive topic.
Chapter 3: Memory, computation, learning and intelligence aren’t uniquely human capacities.
Chapter 4: AI is progressing fast and will soon transform the way humans live.
Chapter 5: Building human-level AI might lead a superintelligent system to dominate the planet.
Chapter 6: Many possible AI aftermaths exist, from reassuring visions to nightmarish outcomes.
Chapter 7: Nature, including humanity, pursues goals, and scientists aim to recreate this drive in AI.
Chapter 8: AI scientists debate consciousness and whether machines can have subjective inner lives.
Description
Life 3.0 (2017) is a tour through the current questions, ideas and research involved in the emerging field of artificial intelligence. Author Max Tegmark provides us a glimpse into the future, sketching out the possible scenarios that might transpire on earth. Humans might fuse with machines; we might bend machines to our will or, terrifyingly, intelligent machines could take over.
Who Should Listen
- Artificial intelligence enthusiasts and physicists
- Future gazers and philosophers
- Nerds, geeks and science fiction fans