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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: History reveals that superintelligence – technology more intelligent than any human being – is rapidly approaching.
Chapter 3: The history of machine intelligence over the past half century has seen alternating setbacks and breakthroughs.
Chapter 4: Superintelligence will probably arise through two main routes.
Chapter 5: Superintelligence may arise swiftly through strategic dominance or gradually through cooperative global research.
Chapter 6: We can avert accidental disasters by teaching superintelligence to adopt and respect human values.
Chapter 7: Intelligent machines are likely to displace nearly all human workers.
Chapter 8: In a superintelligent economy, most humans will be poor or living off assets, while the rich chase unprecedented luxuries.
Chapter 9: Ensuring safety must come first, long before we create superintelligence.
Description
Superintelligence (2014) investigates how creating a machine more intelligent than a human would change humanity. These blinks are full of facts, figures and studies from a variety of disciplines, resulting in a complex picture of the superintelligent future and how we might arrive there.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone working in computer science, neuroscience, robotics or mathematics
- Fans of science fiction or theories about the human apocalypse
- People interested in the moral questions surrounding the creation of artificial life forms